Mount Pleasant Estate - Our Heritage

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McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant Winery was rated five star winery by James Halliday in his 2011 Australian Wine Companion. The rating, from arguably Australia’s finest wine critic, endorses McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant as an outstanding winery. Read more...

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Respected wine critics and authors, Campbell Mattinson and Gary Walsh recently named 2007 McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant Maurice O’Shea Shiraz “Shiraz of the Year” in their 2010/11 Big Red Wine Book. The Shiraz recieved 97 points out of a possible 100. Read more...

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Our Heritage

In 1880, English immigrant Charles King planted vines on rich, volcanic soil in the Parish of Pokolbin, at the southern end of the Hunter Valley. In 1921, legendary winemaker Maurice O’Shea purchased and extended the 16.3ha property and named it Mount Pleasant, after the peak that rises behind the winery.

Today – nestled in the slopes of the Brokenback Range in NSW’s lower Hunter Valley – Mount Pleasant keeps alive the pioneering spirit of its heritage, creating benchmark Hunter Valley wines.

Maurice O'Shea

He was the man who established Mount Pleasant, and pioneered and changed Australian wine.

Development Into Famous Estate

From the planting of the first vines in 1880, the legend of Maurice O’Shea, the involvement of the McWilliam family and award winning wines, Mount Pleasant is rich in both history and acclaim.

Mount Pleasant Today

The winery today is widely recognised as one of the Hunter Valley’s benchmark wine producers.