Our Story
New Era Vineyards is a premium cool climate wine brand and vineyard located just outside woodside in the picturesque Adelaide Hills. Owned by the Baxter family, the vineyard was one of the earlier vineyards established in the cool climate of the Woodside - Adelaide Hills region in 1988 and possesses a location that takes full advantage of its northerly facing aspect. This family run vineyard and winery operations produces just over 1500 cases of wine per year from more than ten different varieties. The fruit for these wines is carefully hand selected in the vineyard and then crafted into wines by father and son combination Bob and Iain Baxter. Bob whose passion after working 25 years with Australia's largest wine producer Southcorp and iconic brands including Lindeman’s, Leo Buring, Wynn’s and Penfold’s was to produce his own wines that are individually distinctive and exceptional quality and value.
Our Wines:
Art Series Pet Nat 2022
Tasting Notes: Made from 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Savvy 100% handpicked from New Era Vineyards to produce a delicate version of the Pet Nat style, that is full of strawberries, raspberries, tropical fruits and a little spice to finish of the palate. Food Matches: This wine is best served as an aperitif...
Art Series Dolcetto Rose 2024
This wine displays a fragrant bouquet of crushed rose petals and strawberries complemented by an attractive and textured palate of sweet violet, cranberry and cherry fruit.
Art Series Pinot Grigio 2023
bouquet of white blossom and hints of pure lemon and grapefruit, while the palate reveals ripe, delicious apple, pear and peach flavours that finish in a wave of flinty pebbles in a stream.
Art Series Arneis 2022
Aromas of Lemongrass, Honeydew, Almonds and perfume. A rich and creamy palate showing Nashi Pears, Apricots, and glazed peaches to finish.
Art Series Sangiovese 2021
The bouquet of this wine exhibits complex cherry, plum, strawberry and floral characters
Barrel Select Pinot Noir 2022
Aromas of cherries, black forest fruits, clove and spicy cedar notes.
Art Series Lagrein 2021
Aromas of black cherries, cranberries and red fruits with hints of aniseed. The palate is rich and luscious, bursting with fresh plums, cranberries and an overlay of dark chocolate.
Art Series Gruner Veltliner 2021
A lime, pink grapefruit and white peppery bouquet leads to a textured layers of lemon, white pepper, honey, nuts and a faint creaminess.
Barrel Select Vintage Fortified Touriga Nacional 2019
Rich aromas of white pepper, blueberries and underlying violets and other floral notes. The palate is showing varietal spice, fruit cake and chocolate mocha notes.
Barrel Select Montepulciano 2020
Aroma's of spices, cherries and mocha. Flavours of plum's, boysenberry and herbal notes. After the initial wave of berry fruits the tannin's arrive with glory of a roman legion.
Art Series Tempranillo 2019
blueberry, raspberry and cherry cola. Plush red fruits roll across the palate meshed with mixed spices and combined with cedary oak.
Art Series Syrah 2018
95 points James Halliday Wine Companion
‘The colours of wine’ Art Series:
New Era, as a brand, has over the last few years has been planting and producing lesser known alternative varieties, including Touriga Nacional (a Portuguese variety that in 2019 we produced a Vintage Port from), Sangiovese (the workhorse of the Chianti region) and Tempranillo (which produces the stunning aged wines of the Rioja region in...
Art Series Touriga Nacional 2018
It exhibits a complex bouquet with wild blackberries and mulberries interspersed with floral subtleties. The palate is juicy and full with dark berries
Basket Pressed Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
The bouquet is packed full of concentrated cassis and raspberries with hints of mint and toasty oak. The palate is elegant and complex with fresh mulberry, mocha and perfumed violet undertones.
Wine Making, Viticulture & Biodiversity:
New Era’s philosophy on winemaking is governed by minimal intervention and to allow the individual terroir of the vineyard to shine through in our wines. This is achieved through traditional winemaking techniques that have minimal impact and influence on the flavour and character on the finished wines. We have adopted and in collaboration use a variety of new and old-world wine making techniques together to produce wines that express their origins and the individual terroir of New Era and the Adelaide Hills.
Our attitude centres around that of biodiversity and the sustainable future of the Vineyard and the local environment, flora and fauna that inhabit the property. Over the last couple of years, a family of kangaroo’s has called New Era home and we enjoy the opportunity to share this wonderful environment with them. A policy of minimum applications of herbicides, pesticides and other foreign chemicals unsure that we use only minimal chemicals and well below industry standards. Bob and Iain tender the vines all the way through the growing seasons from hand pruning the vines using a combination of both spur and cane pruning to leaf plucking and bunch thinning.