Located in the Yarra Valley, 65 kilometres northeast of Melbourne, the thousand candles farm is a historic, sprawling property that stretches over 1100 acres. It comprises of vineyards, cattle pastures, and native bush.
Our estate name ‘thousand candles’ is taken from the nineteenth-century account of the local land that harks back to the country’s original, indigenous people. A ceremony granting free passage freedom of the bush to the lands around our property was witnessed by a European settler, who, referring to the tribesman dramatically holding aloft their firesticks, remarked that it was if the ‘twilight of the evening had been interrupted by a thousand candles…’
