The first phase of the Winery development, commenced on 29 November 2001 for completion by May 2002, involved the construction of a cellar door sales facility, 500 square metre barrel store, administration facilities, and the Winery entry roads and parking area. The cost of construction for phase one was $1.096 million, excluding GST.

The second phase of the Winery development was completed in March 2004 increasing crushing capacity to 900 tonnes. The third phase of contruction was completed in March 2005 increasing the capacity of Watershed's winery to crush 1200 tonnes. The fourth phase of construction was completed in March 2008 and has increased the capacity of Watershed's winery to crush 1600 tonnes.  It's three barrel stores now hold over 2400 barrels. 75% of all barrels used are French oak, 20% American oak and 15 Hungarian oak.

The Winery building has been designed by Richard Harris of Innovest Construction on a modular basis to facilitate future expansion.

In the 2009 harvest, Watershed crushed just over 1,200 tonnes of fruit.

The Winery design incorporates a spectacular view of the Watershed vineyard and dam for visitors to the cellar door sales.

 SEVERINE LOGAN - Winemaker

Severine commenced employment as Watershed's head winemaker in January 2007. Severine holds a national Diploma of Oenology from Toulouse University in France and and Associate Diploma in Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry from orelans University in France.

Severine's final task in August to December 1990, as part of her Oenology Diploma, was to set up trials at Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Chateaa Phelan-Segur on must and juice concentration by evaporation under vacuum on Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot fruit.

From 1991 to 1994 Severine worked at a number of French wineries as either a consultant winemaker or vintage winemaker. In 1995 Severine worked as a vintage cellar hand at Brown Brothers before returning to France for the 1995 vintage.

Severine returned to Australia in January 1996 and worked as a cellar hand, then assistant winemaker and finally winemaker for BRL Hardy at Houghton Wines in Western Australia. This appointment also resulted in Severine returning to France in August and September 1998 to undertake vintage work at BRL Hardy's winery, Domaine de La Baume, in Languedoc.

Severine was appointed winemaker at Sandalford Wines in Western Australia in January 1999. Severine moved to the position of winemaker at Rosemount Estate in the Hunter Valley in October 2000 and prior to her departure to join Watershed Severine was responsible for overseeing the production and as leading winemaker for Rosemount's reserve wines in New South Wales

MICHAEL MUDGE -  Assistant Winemaker

Michael has been employed by Watershed Wines since January 2006.  He started his career in the wine industry as a cellar hand at Sandalford for 3 years before moving to Capel Vale Wines as the assistant winemaker.  Before finding his passion for wine Michael spent 12 years as a qualified chef and is currently completing a Bachelor of Applied Science(Viticulture & Oenology) at Curtin University.

Click below to view the wine making facility.

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In March 2009 Watershed completed the construction of a 1,000sq metre packaged wine storage facillity.  This can house up to 70,000 cases of packaged wine and is a hive of acitivity all year round.  Watershed currently bottle approx half of its packaged wine on site via a mobile bottling facility and the remaining half at Portavin fixed line in Jindong.

Click to view bottling at Watershed .

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