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BUSINESS CARD - ROCKSGATE WINERY

2008
Overview

Rectangle blue and white, landscape orientated card. On obverse side, blue background with a shadow outline of trees and a body of water. White writing across middle [ROCKSGATE / WINERY].
On reverse side, white background with a blue illustration of a small Australian bird, possibly a Willy wag tail, on left side. Blue text to right of illustration [TREVOR COOK & / BRENDA O'CONNELL / 171 Canns Rd. Bedfordale WA 6112 / (08) 9498 1603 0428 923 867 / Opening Times: / Cellar Door - Sun 11 to 5pm, Mon - Sat by appointment / Wood Fired Pizza - Bookings essential]

Historical information

Rocksgate Winery, located on Canns Road in Bedfordale, was started by Trevor Cook and Brenda O'Connell in 2001 when they planted Shiraz vines. In 2003 they planted Cabernet vines and 2005 Merlot vines. The vineyard covered approximately one and half hectares. The winery employed Siobhan Lynch as the winemaker. Siobhan successfully ran her fathers vineyard for many years and in 1996 moved to Margaret River to begin her career in wine making. After working at Amberley Estate and Wise Winery, Siobhan branched out to establish her own wine making and consultancy business freerun&marc. In the last ten years Siobhan has specialised in small batch wine making across the south-west including Perth, Dunsborough, Manjimup and Karridale. Siobhan also lectures at TAFE in Margaret River.
In 2006 they opened the cellar and started selling their first vintage. They also installed a pizza oven so food could be sold to guests. The vineyard is managed with minimum use of insecticides with the vines being hand pruned. The grapes were hand picked, basket pressed and then matured in French or American oak for twenty months before being bottled on site.

https://kazzit.com/winery/rocksgate-winery.html

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-33-COA2022.48
Item type
Documents
Material
Card
Width
90 mm
Height or length
55 mm
Keywords
Canns Road 171 Bedfordale
Canns Road Bedfordale
Bedfordale
O 'CONNELL Brenda
COOK Trevor
Year
2008
Statement of significance

This object is part of a collection that represents the commercial history of the City of Armadale. It represents the many different businesses that have operated in the local area and how those businesses have evolved over time. Businesses play an important role within a community, they provide wanted and needed goods and services, employment, income and opportunities to the local community. They can also operate as important social connectors, places where people gathered and engaged with other members of the community.

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