Rob Sutherland

Viticultural Manager
Rob Sutherland is the Viticultural Manager for De Bortoli Wines' Yarra Valley vineyards,responsible for 240 hectares of vines at the Dixons Creek and Brooklands properties. The 60 hectare Brooklands vineyard located near Yarra Glen was purchasedfrom a group of investors who sold the majority of their fruit to Southcorp. WhenDe Bortoli purchased the property in 2005, the company was fortunate enough to inherit Rob, who has a self-confessed passion and fascination for vineyards.

It soon became apparent that Rob's ideas and philosophies about the vineyard were simpatico with De Bortoli's ever-increasing interest in organic and biological farming practices. In three years he has helped convert the entire Brooklands property to biological farming practices and is now overseeing a similar conversion at Dixons Creek that first started about six years ago.