The POSSUMS label was drawn initially from a combination of those of the joint owners Dr. John Possingham and Ms Carol Summers. Subsequently we adopted as a motif for our labels, the image of the endearing but somewhat destructive, urban-living Australian marsupial, the POSSUM.

I came to grape growing and wine making after studying agricultural science at both Adelaide and Oxford Universities and after managing for an extended period the Federal Governments’ research program in viticulture. Carol has qualifications in nursing, business management and the law. She manages the administration and marketing side of our business. Together with the vineyard manager I look after the growing of the grapes.  We both interface with the winemaker over the making of the wine.

We own and operate about 60 hectares of vineyards within the McLaren Vale geographic area (GI) and our winery at Blewitt Springs has sufficient wine making capacity to be able to process our annual grape crop.   

Winery and Vineyard at Blewitt Springs

Vineyards at Willunga