BELLWETHER FARM – Land area 27.8ha – 69 acres /Vineyard area 20.84ha – 51.5 acres
Residence
A very well positioned modern federation style home that offers good proportion.
Intelligently sited to overlook the vineyard, furthermore the huge kitchen/family area offers far reaching distant views to the North/Northeast. The adjoining modern hip roof fully paved undercover outside entertainment area further compliments the wonderful outlook.
The front entrance leads to the formal lounge on the right with inbuilt book shelving and a bay window. To the left is the master bedroom with walk in robe and the ensuite offering 2 door 3 drawer vanity, toilet and corner shower.
The room next to the huge kitchen/family a could be used as a separate family play area or home office. The other 3 bedrooms all offer floor to ceiling built in robes, two with 2 door width, one with three door width.
The 3-way bathroom offers fully width/mirror width 4 door vanity, separate bath & shower area, plus a separate toilet. The laundry is provided with a work bench with inbuilt trough and appliance cupboard.
The kitchen is very well appointed with plenty of cupboards including wall mounted cupboards, serving bench, Westinghouse 4 gas hot plate stove, Westinghouse wall oven, Fisher Paykel dishwasher and double sink. Further pantry storage is located upon internal entrance to the large double garage, one full width auto roller door.
Reverse cycle air conditioning is ducted throughout and there is also a large efficient slow combustion log fire.
The implement/wood storage shed is nearby and the modern 45′ x 30′ farm shed together with 3 phase power. Approximately 100,000 litres of rainwater storage is provided from five interconnected tanks.
The Vineyard – enquire with agent for extra information such as
1. Vineyard plan
2. Vineyard varieties/clones/planted area/row width/panel spacing/vine numbers/vine spacings/root stock/s/ year planted/grafts.
3. Frost Mitigation Area, infrastructure only 3 years old.
Water Information
1. Water Licence – No 403559, Western Mount Lofty Ranges Prescribed Well area.
2. 45,000 Mg/l Bore water (underground), 45,000 kL’s of which 6,000 kL’s was also set aside for frost protection, that is 39,000 kL’s + 6,000 kL’s.
3. Plus, the additional 5.15 Mg/l, 5,150 kL of dam water for taking, dam assessed by the Department for Environment and Water at 12.2 Mg/l, 12.200 kL capacity.
Bore Information/Pump Information
• Two bores, one with meter.
• The top bore, near the homestead is quoted as
– 21 lengths of 65mm stainless steel rising main and the pump should be a Lowara 2616. 10-6 submersible with a Franklin Electric 7.5 kW.
• The bottom bore, the main bore
– Grundfos SP30-17 15 kW with an Allen Bradley VSD and Dv Dt filter.
• The Dam pump
– Grundfos SP46-813 kW with a Schneider 15 kW variable speed drive and Sine filter.
Bore Output and Quality
Top Bore output
Quoted at 260 Litres/minute/3.5 thousand gallons/hour. See Water Test Analysis 5/9/2025.
1113-ppm total salts plus the other stated results all within reasonable parameters.
Bottom Bore output
Quoted at 500 Litres/minute/6.5 thousand gallons/hour. See Water Test Analysis 5/9/2025.
580ppm total salts (very good) plus the other stated results all within reasonable parameters.
The bottom bore (main bore) pumps direct into the dam. The pump on the dam via the filtration equipment pumps out to the vineyard at 600L/minute/9,000 gallons/hour, the entire vineyard is watered with 6 shifts over 22 irrigation blocks.
Solar Power
This fact is very significant and installed June 2025. Total cost $108,350.00.
Solar output 58 kW
Battery output 40.6 kW
Overall Summary
Well situated in the Forreston region, “the epicentre” of high-end productive country with good quality strong yield bores.
The residence is of a high standard, offering a great lifestyle and outlook.
The vineyard is in good heart with all the right varieties, the white varieties being in relatively high demand.
The capital value (as advertised) reflects only 70% of the definitive capital replacement value of $5M, combining house and land plus the operational vineyard at $140,000 per hectare* (in the Adelaide Hills).
*Inclusive of infrastructure/clones/water/licence/frost protection.
