Sirromet harvest their fruit at the end of vintage each year – and it all ripens during the same short few months. This frantic time of 24/7 operations, stress, sleep deprivation, early morning trips to the Granite Belt vineyards, unseasonal weather dramas, and general ordered chaos. It’s all very complicated some people will tell you. And it is. Which is why Sirromet have a team of well qualified and experienced wine makers, whose main job is to make the best wines humanly possible.

The full-time staff are joined by a casual roster of workers brought in to hand-pick specific vintages that the mechanical pickers aren’t able to handle. Vineyard laboratories pinpoint the moment the grapes are at their peak and most harvesting takes place under the forgiving shade of night skies. Over a ten week period, the tonnage of red and white grapes are plucked from the their home and sent overnight by refrigerated lorry to the winery. The truckloads of grapes are crushed daily, their stems removed and the juices then stored in refrigerated tanks where yeasts and sugars begin the time honoured process of creating wine. From here it gets fined, cellared and carefully monitored all the way through the process until the wine makers decide it’s ready for bottling.

So many varieties, so many seasons, so many vintages, so many styles – how do you choose? The A-Z of Sirromet wines makes it easy, a range of styles to suit all tastes. The Perfect Day and 820 Above ranges are approachable, casual, everyday drinking. They may over deliver on quality but they're well below expectation when it comes to price. The premium range and the Chairman’s private cellar comfortably sit amongst the top five or six of any like Australian wine. It’s a big claim and true.

Sirromet’s three major vineyards include some of Australia’s highest altitude plantings. Night Sky Vineyard is 23 hectares of choice terrain near the Ballandean highway. It is planted to pinot gris, verdelho, chardonnay, viognier and white varietals. Within the sprawling Seven Scenes estate are 40 separate blocks, each with their own microclimate. Two of these are Australia’s highest vineyard plantings. Seventeen grape varieties are planted across Seven Scenes. It provides the grapes for many of medal-winning wines. Saint Jude’s Vineyard is a homage to some of modern society’s most exciting and fashionable tipples, including nebbiolo, viognier and pinot gris. St Jude’s 22 hectares also grows shiraz, chardonnay, verdelho and cabernet sauvignon.

Siromet's initiatives at viticulture are yielding outstanding white and red wine grapes. Across all varieties, the quality is unprecedented in the Granite Belt’s recent history. Sirromet have brought home many awards, trophies and medals for Australia from major international wine shows. Most of Sirromet's trophy and premium cellars come from small, private grape parcels on on the estate's Seven Scenes Vineyard. The reds spend 18-months maturing in barrels, the whites between eight-nine months.