The name ‘Alkoomi’ is derived from a local Aboriginal dialect, meaning ‘a place we chose’. Similarly, the Alkoomi logo symbolizes an Australian grass tree found in the Frankland River area. Alkoomi wasn’t always a winery. During the late 1960’s Merv and July Lange were managing a large sheep property when Australian wool prices crashed. So in 1971, in a place “they” chose, in a corner of their property, they planted one hectare of Cabernet Sauvignon. Riesling, Sauvignon, Shiraz and Malbec soon followed and the first of Alkoomi’s wines were released in 1976. Located in the Frankland River wine region, just 80-kilometers inland from the Southern Ocean, the Alkoomi property receives good winter rains and cool summer sea breezes not dissimilar to that of Bordeaux’s wine region. In the winery, each individual parcel of fruit can be fermented separately, from the old vines planted in 1971 through to the anticipated fruit from new vines planted in 2014. This allows the wines to truly show their inherent regional personality and depth of varietal character.
