This winery owned and established by James and Suzanne Halliday in 1985. Winery is located in the cool and beautiful Yarra Valley, about one hour’s drive east of Melbourne, its steep, close-planted vineyards have become a signature of the region.

The expansion of the winery to 1300 tones capacity, housing 3000 French Oak barriques was in 1996.

Coldstream Hills maintains its small winery essence with most of the wine literally being “hand made”. The fruit is hand pruned and partially hand picked; the wine is made mainly using small open fermenters (of three to four tones capacity for the red wines, while the whites are principally barrel fermented). Winemaking techniques and philosophies haven’t changed with the growth in production either; all designed to produce elegant wines with a long finish.

Coldstream Hills has grown to become one of Australia's leading small wineries with the wines now sold in over 16 countries.