Our Story

In 2010, my husband, co-founder, and wine making partner, and I had some odds and ends in the winery from the Marion’s Vineyard estate, which we blended together on the tasting bench for fun.

We created a white and a red estate grown field blend and we liked it so much we blended and bottled it. We soon realised these wines had no home, so that is when we decided to create Beautiful Isle Wines, inspired by the property’s original crop - apples.

We also found a series of old apple crate labels in the original apple shed (pictured below) and had an artist incorporate the art of the Haven and Beautiful Isle labels to adorn our first releases. These apple crate labels are iconic in fruit label art and are two of the brightest, friendliest apple crate art prints we know. They fit our wines perfectly. 

The word 'Fancy' was used in the 1930's to indicate top quality fruit.

Fancy Wine! Fancy That!

Back in the Day

This photo (below) was taken in 1892 and shows the valley we look at every day where the pears and apples were once planted and then stored in our apple shed only meters away. The road at the river was dirt, and there were railway tracks on the jetty to send fruit bins to the ships in the Tamar for transport to the mainland and England.