2024 will mark Water Wheel's 50th vintage. The original family owned winery named after a nearby flour mill remains family owned today.

Running east west though the middle of Victoria are some hills generously called The Great Dividing Range. Not such a great geological barrier in this old, old continent, but it does mark quite a change in agriculture. Bendigo is north of The Divide where the sun shines in summer and the rain falls in winter, a region well suited to robust reds made from ripe grapes.