280m
Elevation
Cool nights on the plateau slow the fruit. Acidity holds. Character builds.
Heathcote, Victoria
Basalt Country. Ancient Soil.
Moretti Estate sits on the ancient basalt plains of North-Western Victoria — country shaped by Cambrian greenstone, red-brown soil, and a dry summer that stresses the trees just enough to concentrate what ends up in the bottle.
We are a single estate. Everything we press comes from this grove. Nothing is blended from elsewhere. Nothing is rushed.
The Moretti family planted their first grove in 2003. Three generations, two brothers, one rule: only harvest what the land will give you. We don't push yield. We don't irrigate to excess. The trees stress a little each summer, and that stress concentrates the flavour.
540M
Years — Cambrian Greenstone
Heathcote sits on some of the oldest geological rock in Australia — 540-million-year-old Cambrian greenstone. The red-brown soil is deep, well-drained, and mineral-rich. It's why the grapes here punch above their weight, and why our olives carry a character you won't find elsewhere.
The Grove
Frantoio, Leccino, and Koroneiki — planted with patience, tended by hand. Our oldest Koroneiki trees date to that first planting in 2003. They produce sparingly. We treat what they give as reserve.
Walk the rows in late autumn and you'll see green-to-purple fruit held tight on the branch. We pick early, before full ripeness, when polyphenols are still high and the oil still has something to say.
2003
First Planting
Three generations on this block. The grove is young by Mediterranean standards — old by Heathcote's.
24hr
Tree to Mill
Fruit never sits. From harvest to crush in under a day — cold, honest, unfiltered.
Only harvest what the land will give you.