…one day we will go on to have our own Winery and our own Cellar Door
– EMO MICHELINI
1924
Emo Michelini is born in Rovereto, Italy.
1950
Emo marries the love of his life Olga
1949
Post WW2 Emo and his family board the “Surriento”, a ship from Genoa, Italy destined for a better life in Sydney, Australia.
1970
After two years in Sydney making small goods, Emo and his family moved to Myrtleford, Victoria to begin farming tobacco
1982
Emo is astounded at the similarities this Alpine Region has to his hometown area of Trentino in The Italian Alps. Emo realises the area has the perfect climate to grow cool climate italian varietal grapes and so Emo both determined, and excited plants his first vines.
1983
Emo pictured after the Ash Wednesday Bushfires came ever so close to to destroying the new vineyard
1991
A further expansion of the vineyard sees it double in size
1996
Construction begins on the Michelini Winery and processing plant.
1997
Winery build is completed and construction of Cellar Door begins
1997
The very first vintage of Michelini Wines is commercially produced.
1998
Grand opening of Michelini Wines Cellar Door. Emo’s dream has finally come true.
2000
Alpine Valleys Wine Region is officially recognised as a Geographical Indiscation (GI) wine region of Australia.
2003
1st vintage of our famous Devils Creek Merlot is produced
2006
Emo Michelini sadly passes away aged 81 and sons Dino and Ilario take over as Directors of Michelini Wines.
2019
Michelini Viticulture is launched as a contracting service to fill a growing need for state of the art harvesting and pruning technology in our growing region.
2020
Kane Michelini rejoins the family business after nearly 10 in Melbourne developing his skills in other industries
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