Kingston Estate

Kingston Estate was established in 1979 by Sarantos and Constantina Moularadellis when they planted 40 acres of vines in South Australia’s Riverland.

This family owned winery is now in the care of son Bill Moularadellis who further developed the business with expansion of vineyards throughout the Riverland, as well as building long term relationships with premium growers in Adelaide Hills, Coonawarra, Clare Valley and Langhorne Creek.

While maintaining a family, hands-on culture, Kingston is now Australia’s sixth largest winemaker in terms of tonnes of grape intake, and fourteenth largest in terms of sales of branded wine.

Its Riverland winery, at Kingston-on-Murray, approximately 220 kilometres from Adelaide in South Australia, produces more than a million cases of premium-quality varietal table wines each vintage. Of this branded wine, 60 per cent is exported to markets such the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Germany and Sweden as well as to emerging markets such as China and Singapore.

Kingston employs more than 70 full-time staff, with total employment swelling to more than 100 during vintage. The winery is a very modern facility with crushing capacity of 80,000 tonnes per annum, stainless steel storage capacity of 30 million litres and an extensive oak-maturation cellar. The Kingston Estate winery is the sixth largest winery in Australia.

Kingston is a keystone of Riverland’s foundation as one of Australia’s major wine grape growing areas, with about 30% of South Australia’s wine being made within a 40-kilometre radius of the Kingston winery.

1956: Sarantos and Constantina Moularadellis emigrate independently from Greece and settle in South Australia’s Riverland.

1961: The Moularadellis family purchased a small fruit block in Kingston-on-Murray.

1965: The family purchased a second 40-acre Riverland property planted with shiraz, cabernet sauvignon and merlot vines. Initially, grapes from this property were sold to major wine producers.

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