Lost Farm Tasmanian

Richard Angove has grown up in a winemaking family. Since 1886, five generations of his family have worked in winemaking and grape growing.

Five years before he was born, in 1974, the South Australian Land Commission compulsorily acquired the Angove family farm, planted to their best vines, in the small township of Tea Tree Gully, near Adelaide, South Australia. Richard’s grandfather, Tom, fought the ruling all the way to South Australia’s Supreme Court with no success. With the stroke of a pen, their family farm was lost.

In 2008 he worked harvest in the beautiful Tamar Valley in northern Tasmania and fell in love with the landscape, vineyards and flavours of the wines. Many years later when the opportunity arose to work with a number of special growers to create a range of small batch wines he could not resist the opportunity, and so Lost Farm Wines was born, recalling some of the heritage of the original family farm in its name.

Lost Farm Wines is about discovery and potential. Working with the talented growers and the exceptional vineyard sites, aiming to realise the potential in the wines we make from them.