DEGEN

The Degen vineyard, cellar door and accommodation is a fresh addition to the Hunter’s prized single vineyard offerings and provides visitors with a personalised approach to cellar door hospitality

A family owned enterprise. Thomas and Jean planted the vineyard on September 11, 2001, opening the Cellar Door in September 2013.

DEGEN (pronounced D-EE-GEN) is their surname and is German in origin, meaning fencing sabre or sword and is depicted across the branding by an antique block print of a man in lunge position, fencing with his sabre. The lunge position is a “balanced” position, highlighting the philosophy of balance in vineyard management to produce well balanced premium quality grapes for fine wine.

As the smallest commercial vineyard in the Lower Hunter, the DEGEN’s grow Shiraz, Chardonnay and Semillon and produce single vineyard wine in collaboration with leading Hunter Valley winemakers.