The Mildura region, since then the region has become one of Australia's most industrious and flourishing sources of high quality produce including citrus, olives, almonds and grapes.

The Mildura region was transformed from an arid, scrubby, no man's land, to an agricultural sanctuary in the 1880's. Alfred Deakin, a former Prime Minister of Australia, encouraged California's Chaffey Brothers to bring their irrigation proficiency to the immense inland valley of the Murray River in North West Victoria.

The Deakin Estate property and its wines are named in honor of that imaginative, Alfred Deakin. Deakin Estate was founded in the 1960s launching the current eponymous variety in 1994. The Murray River region is one of Australia's warmer regions and this is reflected in the bold, fruity, forward style of the wines.

Purchased in 1967, Deakin Estate was planted to premium wine grapes which were sold as fruit until 1980 when a winery facility was built.

Deakin Estate's efforts are focused on producing fruit of the highest quality and significant wines brimming with flavour and varietal character. The range of wines was launched in 1994 in limited quantities. Since then their investment in extensive vineyard plantings has allowed them to share distinctively Australian wines with customers approximately the world.