Chalmers is a family wine business run by Bruce and Jenni Chalmers and their family, who have been a major force in Australian viticulture for around 30 years. From 1989 to 2008 they ran Chalmers Nurseries at Euston in New South Wales, one of Australia's largest wholesale vine nurseries.
The family's greatest contribution has been diversity. Through partnerships with Italian nurseries, Chalmers imported about 70 mostly Italian grape varieties and clones, released in Australia from 2000, and these have helped Australian growers find varieties better suited to a warming, drier climate. In 2009 and 2010 the family planted source blocks of these varieties at Heathcote and at Merbein near Mildura, and later added a second wave of Italian white varieties. They were named Gourmet Traveller WINE's Viticulturists of the Year.
Chalmers makes its own wines at its Merbein winery using native yeasts, with fruit from its Heathcote and Murray Darling vineyards, focusing on Italian varieties across ranges such as the experimental Chalmers Project wines.
- Address
- 118 Third Street, Merbein VIC 3505
Regions
Wines
- Chalmers - Heathcote Felicitas — Sparkling
- Chalmers 1902 Corowa Sangiovese — Red
- Chalmers Aglianico — Red
- Chalmers Aglianico Museum Release — Red
- Chalmers Aglianico Nero d'Avola Sagrantino Rosato — Rosé
- Chalmers Aglianico Rosato — Rosé
- Chalmers Arturo Heathcote Malbec — Red
- Chalmers Bush Vine Inzolia — White
- Chalmers Bush Vine Negroamaro — Red
- Chalmers Col Fondo Aglianico — Sparkling
- Chalmers Dott. Malvasia Istriana — White
- Chalmers Dott. Pavana — Red
- Chalmers Dott. Prosecco — Sparkling
- Chalmers Dott. Ribolla Gialla — White
- Chalmers Dott. Ribolla Gialla On Skins — White
- Chalmers Dott. Schioppettino — Red
- Chalmers El Fuente Tempranillo — Red
- Chalmers Falanghina — White
- Chalmers Fiano — White
- Chalmers Fiano Felicitas — Sparkling
- Chalmers Fiano La Sorelle — White
- Chalmers Greco — White
- Chalmers Heathcote Lagrein — Red
- Chalmers Heathcote Sagrantino — Red
- Chalmers Lambrusco — Sparkling
- Chalmers Lambrusco Maestri Le Sorelle Preservative Free Maestri — Red
- Chalmers Le Sorelle Heathcote Shiraz — Red
- Chalmers Montevecchio Fiano — White
- Chalmers Montevecchio Heathcote Bianco Field Blend — White
- Chalmers Montevecchio Heathcote Rosso Field Blend — Red
- Chalmers Montevecchio Moscato Frizzante — Sparkling
- Chalmers Montevecchio Moscato by Chalmers Wines — Sparkling
- Chalmers Montevecchio Sangiovese — Red
- Chalmers Moscato Giallo Appassimento — Dessert
- Chalmers Mother Block Red Blend — Red
- Chalmers Mother Block White Blend — White
- Chalmers Mungo Lunette Viognier — White
- Chalmers Murray Cod Vermentino — White
- Chalmers Muscat Montevecchio Moscato — Dessert
- Chalmers Nebbiolo Dott. — Red
- Chalmers Nero Zero — Red
- Chalmers Nero d'Avola — Red
- Chalmers Pecorino — White
- Chalmers Piano Del Bacino Lagrein — Red
- Chalmers Piedirosso — Red
- Chalmers Project Aglianico Bambino — Red
- Chalmers Project Falanghina — White
- Chalmers Project Grechetto — White
- Chalmers Project Nero di Troia — Red
- Chalmers Project Pecorino VCR 485 — White
- Chalmers Project Pigato — White
- Chalmers Project Ribolla Gialla — White
- Chalmers Project Schioppettino — Red
- Chalmers Project Wine Malvasia Istriana — White
- Chalmers Project Wine Negro Amaro — Red
- Chalmers Red and White Blend Mother Block Rosé — Rosé
- Chalmers Red and White Blend Top Block — Red
- Chalmers Rose Heathcote Rosato — Rosé
- Chalmers Rose Montevecchio Heathcote Rosato — Rosé
- Chalmers Rose Negroamaro Rosato — Rosé
- Chalmers Rose Sagrantino Rosato — Rosé
- Chalmers Salt Pan Shiraz — Red
- Chalmers Sparkling Heathcote Felicitas — Sparkling
- Chalmers Sparkling Heathcote Lambrusco — Sparkling
- Chalmers Sweet Appassimento — Dessert
- Chalmers Sweet Montevecchio Heathcote Moscato — Dessert
- Chalmers Sweet red Sagrantino Appassimento — Dessert
- Chalmers The Spirit — White
- Chalmers Vermentino — White
- Chalmers Vermentino Mother Block Skin Contact White — White
- Chalmers Vermentino Zero — White
- Chalmers White Blends Montevecchio Bianco — White
- Chalmers White Blends Motevecchio Bianco Field Blend — White