Husband and wife team, Erinn & Janet Klein are quiet achievers. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the planting of their first vines at Ngeringa (the local indigenous word for 'place of the she-oaks’), their property at Mt Barker in the Adelaide Hills. Their farm was certified biodynamic eight years earlier, in 1993. Unlike the majority of vineyards in Australia, these vines are not growing in a monoculture. Meticulous and passionate in their approach to boidynamic farming, the estate is home to vineyards of small, close-planted vines and also to extensive regeneration of native plants, an expansive vegetable garden, Scottish Highland cattle, sheep and chickens and a simple straw bale winery. 

A gleaming example of how meticulous farming all year round is the real winemaking, with work in the cellar at vintage being of minimal intervention only in order to allow the wines to best express their site and vintage with purity and clarity. The wines are classic and vital in style. The focus is on Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Syrah. All ferments are small and natural, the wines see elevage in fine French oak (small portion of new) and bottled without fining or filtration and a small amount of sulphur dioxide.

All estate wines are labelled Ngeringa. A small number of wines are produced at a lower price point under their ‘By Ngeringa’ label. Fruit sources for these wines vary but are always biodynamically farmed.