Our Cellar Door

Meet Our Team

March 7, 2023Our Cellar Door, Our News, Our Vineyard

Mike De IuliisWinemaker & OwnerGreat winemaker and above-average joke teller. There's a pretty good chance that you'll hear Mike's booming voice before you see him. Emily GloverWinemakerEmily has completed vintages in Burgundy, the Napa Valley and here in the Hunter. Emily is also has been honing her wine show judging skills as an associate at...

Hunter Valley Winemaker Mike De Iuliis and his Dad Joss De iuliis celebrate in a vineyard with the groodle Lucy

Our History

February 20, 2023Our Achievements, Our Cellar Door, Our Events, Our News, Our Vineyard

1987A cattle grazing property was purchased by Joss and Anna De Iuliis in Lovedale. It would take several years of renegerative viticultural for the land to be ready to plant vines. 1990First vines of semillon and chardonnay are planted on the Lovedale Road Vineyard. 1991First vines of shiraz and merlot planted on the Lovedale Road...

Cellar door guests hold at glass of shiraz at the De Iuliis Hunter Valley winery

Halliday Wine Companion: Wineries to discover

February 20, 2023Our Cellar Door, Our Events, Our News

As one of the Hunter Valleys top producers, the De Iuliis family create wines of excellence and outstanding quality. Wine has been a tradition in the De Iuliis family for four generations, dating back to 1930s in Italy. Since then, winemaker Mike has lifted the quality of wines into the highest echelon with his innovation...

Hunter Valley Winemaker Mike De Iuliis handing semillon grapes on the family vineyard during harvest

Whoa, vintage 2023 is halfway there!

February 16, 2023Our Cellar Door, Our News

The start of the growing season was marked by a dry and warm spell, which helped vines to bud and grow quickly. However, we experienced a cool and wet spring, which impacted fruit set and reduced crop yields. Late Summer (finally!) brought hot and dry conditions, which helped to ripen the grapes but also led...

Hunter Valley vigneron Joss De Iuliis in the vineyard handpicking grapes

So, let’s chat about the white wine making process…

February 7, 2023Chardonnay, Our Cellar Door, Our News, Our Vineyard, Our Wines, Semillon, Verdelho

Harvesting Grapes for our white wines are both hand and machine harvested. Hand-picking is gentle on the fruit and preserves the integrity of the bunches. Machine harvesting crushes the fruit slightly, breaking the skin of the grapes and releasing more phenolic material into the juice. Preparing White varieties are either destemmed before pressing or grapes...

Vintage 2023 Update

December 19, 2022Our Cellar Door, Our News, Our Vineyard, Our Wines

The wet growing season has encouraged lush canopies with vigorous growth. Our vineyard team has been dedicated and diligent, battling the effects of the wetter season and winning! The hard work in the vineyard continues as there is always added disease pressure with humid conditions. The milder temperatures, although warmer than last year, throughout December...

De Iuliis Wrapped 2022

December 1, 2022Our Achievements, Our Cellar Door, Our News, Our Wines

As 2022 comes to an end, we took a look back at your favourite wines of the year. These are deemed our top sellers - through our cellar door, wine club, wholesale and export. 2021 Estate Chardonnay There's no surprise to us that this is our number one seller. Our wine club members love it,...

2022 Festive Trading Hours

November 29, 2022Our Cellar Door, Our News

On Tuesday 6th December, we will be taking to the high seas for our Christmas party so our cellar door will be closed. Don't worry, we will be back open at 12pm on Wednesday for all your tasting needs. We appreciate how hard our team work all year around, and so we will be also...

Talga Road Shiraz being pressed in the winery

Love Shiraz? Enjoy a flight of our award winning shiraz today!

November 3, 2022Our Cellar Door, Our News, Shiraz

Winners at the 2022, 2021 and 2020 Hunter Valley Wine Show for ‘Best Red Wine of Show’ and ‘Best Shiraz’ De Iuliis are leading producers the Hunter’s best shiraz. This experience is for the shiraz lovers. It’s a rare opportunity to experience trophy-winning De Iuliis shiraz from our newest releases to exclusive back-vintages. Enjoy nine...

Wine guests enjoy the De Iuliis DeWine experience

First time to our cellar door? Try this tasting…

October 25, 2022Our Cellar Door, Our News, Our Wines

Made by Mike is a great tasting for you if you've never visited us before and want to try out a range of our wines, Mike’s pick of 8 wines that suit the season and showcase our small-batch wines. If we were to have a greatest hits album, this list would be it. Our friendly...

Double the recognition for De Iuliis

October 16, 2022Our Achievements, Our Cellar Door, Our News

De Iuliis Wines, for the second year running, received the elite recognition of being a 5 Underlined Red Star Winery at the 2023 Halliday Wine Companion Awards. Only the top 3% of wineries in Australia are bestowed this honour and it is a testament to the quality and consistency of the wines De Iuliis produce....

Halliday Wine Companion: Breaking ground for innovation in the Hunter Valley

September 26, 2022Around the Vineyard, Our Achievements, Our Cellar Door, Our News, Our Vineyard

The Hunter Valley is know for producing high-quality, traditional and consistent wines, but there's a new wave of producers pushing the boundaries to deliver wines of innovation, too. The Hunter Valley is a region that has built its reputation around relatively traditional winemaking, signature varieties, family values, and doing what’s been perceived as 'what the Hunter does...