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    YARRA VALLEY

    Jul 07, 2019 6 minutes
    WINSOR DOBBIN

    CONTINUING THE LEVANTINE HILL STORY

    IT has taken just a few years for Levantine Hill to become a Yarra Valley wine tourism icon.

    In addition to a superb range of wines crafted by former Yarra Yering winemaker Paul Bridgeman, there is an excellent tasting area, two eateries, sculpture garden, superb views and room for helicopters to land - which they do with regularity.

    It’s a family business, with owner Elias Jreissati’s daughter Samantha as joint managing director, and blocks in the home vineyard named after all three of his adult daughters. Jreissati arrived in Australia aged 18 from Lebanon, speaking no English. He started out with a sandwich shop, amassed a property fortune by age 25, only to lose it all. He then built it again through his Bensons Property Group.

    The estate comprises two vineyards, one planted in the 1990s; the other with family blocks created alongside a truffiere. The first vintage was in 2012.

    A new state-of-the art winery is being built

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