Nina and Steve are both Greek immigrants to Australia and met each other while picking grapes in the Riverland in 1961. They soon bought a plot of land on which to build a farming business and in 1965 they proudly picked the first grapes off their own vineyard.
I grew up amongst these vines, learning the family business before founding the winery next to our vineyard in 1985. Our winemaking style quickly struck a chord as we began exporting our wines around the world, finding particular early success in the UK and Canada.
From these beginnings we have grown to become one of Australia’s most significant grape growers and wine exporters, strongly focused on long term relationships with customers around the world and building our reputation for quality, reliability and continuous improvement.
Sadly Nina passed away in 2019 but Steve still can be found out in the vineyard, while I continue to run the winery and vineyards. My wife Ivanka looks after key export customers while our three daughters have the ‘Mo Sisters Vineyard’ and have started to add their own chapters to our family’s journey in wine.
We are one of Australia’s largest grape growers and operate an extensive portfolio of vineyards in a diverse range of regions across South Australia and Victoria, ranging from dry grown cool climate to inland irrigated. The winery was built in 1985 on the corner of the family property next to our original vineyard as well as the family home.
Today the winery can be considered two wineries in one: the original winery and the modern extension.
The original winery is where we make our small batch super premium wines giving us the flexibility and control to develop parcels of wine into exciting styles that truly reflect the varieties and regions from which they come.
State of the art tanks and winemaking equipment enhance our ability to produce commercial and larger volume bulk wines to the highest standard.
Our efficient and sophisticated winemaking operations allow us to make wine styles at all quality levels to the specific needs of our diverse global customers.
As a winery with top tier BRC compliance and a storage capacity of 117 million litres (equivalent to 156 million bottles of wine), all of our wine is made and matured on site until dispatched to market.