Springs Road

Springs Road is a vineyard and winery on Kangaroo Island just off the coast of South Australia. Springs Road runs east to west across the northern part of KI with the vineyard established in 1994 on a small sheep farm about 7km west of Kingscote. In 2016 Joch Bosworth and Louise Hemsley-Smith from McLaren Vale’s organic Battle of Bosworth wines purchased the vineyards, opening a cellar door and releasing their first KI wines under the Springs Road label at the end of 2018. The wines are hand-made and estate grown. The Springs Road label is adapted from Louis Freycinet’s 1808 map of Southern Australia ‘Terre Napoleon’.

Kangaroo Island is one of the five regions that make up the Fleurieu Zone and was officially registered as a wine region by Geographic Indication in the year 2000. It is a cool-climate region with regular maritime breezes playing an important role in moderating the ample sunshine and allowing for a long, cool ripening season. The vineyard is on a special site in a very special place. It has a unique combination of relatively low rainfall, low soil fertility and a moderate maritime climate which results in low yielding vines producing highly coloured and intensely flavoured wines.