About Emily C Kinsman ("ECK")

Up until 2019, I was a Collins Street Lawyer, having grown up in the leafy streets of inner eastern Melbourne.  

I’ve always wanted to create, to make something. There is no greater pleasure to me than seeing or hearing someone enjoying something I made. During my school and university years I enjoyed making my own clothes, a meditation of sorts. I also found inspiration in the creativity of cooking and the pleasure of hosting, sharing my creations with friends and family. It wasn’t until my move to the Macedon Ranges in 2016 that the idea of making a living from the land started to form.  

Come 2019, I made my last V-Line commute into Melbourne and started my first vintage as Assistant Winemaker at Hanging Rock Winery. At that time, I’d recently taken over a small vineyard in central Heathcote, on the northern banks of Lake Eppalock, where I grow Shiraz organically. I still farm this site, which has been a challenge and labour of love over the years, as I do many of the jobs by hand: hand weed, hand mow, hand prune, hand net and hand pick. I also work in some respect as a négociant producer, sourcing fruit from an established network of Central Victorian sites.

More recently, in October 2024, I took over the management of a 5-acre site in the Macedon Ranges, where I grow Pinot Noir and Gewürztramminer. The vines were planted in 1987, at an altitude of 800m, with narrow 1.6m row spacing. It's a really special and unique site, which I feel very privileged to be farming - I almost need to pinch myself every time I drive up and down the rows.

Thank you so much for taking an interest in me and my wines, they are full of love, hope and a side of back breaking labour. I hope you enjoy drinking them as much as I have enjoyed making them.