Fox Creek Wines Cellar Door

Fox Creek is a family owned, award winning winery located in McLaren Vale, South Australia. Dr Jim Watts, a specialist and professor of surgery and his wife, (registered nurse) Helen began the Fox Creek story in 1984. They purchased a 32 hectare farming property in McLaren Vale and went about planting vines on the black clay soils which were previously used for grazing sheep and growing barley. The vines thrived, bearing exceptionally high quality and sought after fruit. Ten years later, the family retained a parcel of fruit from the 1994 vintage, which they lovingly crafted into quality wine so supreme that it was awarded ‘Best Wine’ at the 1995 McLaren Vale wine show. The transition from growers to winemakers began and with that Fox Creek Wines was born. In 1996, the Cellar Door was opened in a nineteenth century stone cottage built by the Malpas family in the 1880’s. In early 2000, construction of the winery was completed and recently expanded upon in late 2014.