Moorilla

Moorilla was one of Tasmania’s first wineries—it already had a thirty-five-year history when David Walsh acquired it in 1995. In the early days he did my best to undermine that history with some very poor choices—He tried the French style no-irrigation vineyards for a couple of years. But Tassie doesn’t have seasonal rainfall, so they ended up with grapevines on death row. They gave them a pardon and a few years later appointed Conor van der Reest as winemaker, and he put Moorilla back on track.