Springs Road Wines

Springs Road runs east/west across the northern part of Kangaroo Island, South Australia. The vineyard was established in 1994 on a small sheep property off Springs Road, about 7km west of Kingscote.

In 2016 Joch Bosworth and Louise Hemsley-Smith from McLaren Vale’s organic Battle of Bosworth wines bought the vineyards, opening cellar door and releasing their first KI wines under the Springs Road label at the end of 2018. Wines are hand-made and estate grown.

The Springs Road label is adapted from Louis Freycinet’s 1808 map of Southern Australia ‘Terre Napoleon’.

Springs Road Wines has been owned and operated since 2016 by the owners of Battle of Bosworth Wines Joch Bosworth and Louise Hemsley-Smith.

After taking the McLaren Vale based Battle of Bosworth winery crew on a mystery tour of Kangaroo Island at the end of the 2016 vintage, Joch was shopping for groceries in the regional town of Kingscote when he happened upon a sales advertisement for Springs Road vineyards. After recognizing the vineyards potential, the property was bought and the rest is history.

Joch Bosworth is a 2nd generation McLaren Vale winegrower who studied viticulture at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, NSW and worked vintages in the USA and in Victoria.

Louise Hemsley-Smith is an English blow-in who arrived in South Australia on St Valentines Day 1997 and never left. Our Battle of Bosworth and Spring Seed Wines are grown and made on our Willunga Vineyards which were established by Joch’s parents in the early 1970’s.