ABOUT US

Yalumba Nursery, established in 1975, is Australia’s most reliable source of quality grafted grapevines.

Yalumba Nursery specialise in:

variety selection
clone selection
rootstock selection
alternative variety selection
rootstock and clone evaluation
importation of new varieties and clones

Yalumba Nursery is an ISO9001:2015 accredited supplier, and we guarantee the quality and integrity of our vines and services.

Our connection with Yalumba Wines provides us and our customers with the opportunity to evaluate new and emerging varieties and clones using small-lot winemaking. Yalumba vineyard managers and winemakers provide invaluable feedback and insights on clone and rootstock performance. This is unique; no other nursery in Australia has access to this level of information. Finally, Yalumba Nursery, as an integral component of Yalumba Wines, has a long-term commitment to the industry.

Yalumba Nursery has developed strong relationships with leading grapevine variety, clone and rootstock selection programmes from around the globe. We are sole distributors of ENTAV-INRA® variety and clone selections in Australia and also distribute IFG (International Fruit Genetics) table grape selections.

To find out how Yalumba Nursery can help you grow your business contact our nursery team at nursery@yalumba.com.

HISTORY

WE NEEDED VINES

We started Yalumba Nursery in 1975 when we needed to replace vines at our Oxford Landing vineyard in the Riverland. We wanted to replant with grafted vines to help combat nematode and salt problems and get yields back up to sustainable levels. Finding quality grafted vine material proved difficult, so we decided to do it ourselves. With that decision Yalumba Nursery was borne. The Yalumba Nursery was first established on the winery grounds in Angaston, moving into a purpose-built facility in 2001. Initially the nursery only supplied the Yalumba vineyards, however soon our growers were asking for our vines and by 1982 Yalumba Nursery was supplying vines commercially.

IMPORTING CLONES

It was around about this time that Yalumba Nursery began its variety and clone importation and selection programme. In the first 10 years of the programme Yalumba Nursery imported and evaluated many, many varieties and there were many, many failures (!), but there have been some obvious success stories including Viognier and the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir Bernard clones from Burgundy. It was also during the 1980s that Yalumba Nursery - with the support of the CSIRO - pioneered the hot-water treatment of grafting material and vines and as a result Australia can lay claim to having some of the world's healthiest planting material free of damaging pathogens such as Crown Gall.

FACILITIES

Callusing rooms are computer controlled to keep temperature and humidity within the ideal range, this helps to ensure even callusing of the graft union.

The glasshouse is a fully automated facility and is used for the production of potted vines.

The mist room is used for the rapid propagation of new varieties and clones.

The use of Omega Grafting Machines ensures excellent surface area connection between the scion and rootstock and leads to a strong union and strong vines.

Hot-water treatment tanks are used to help prevent the spread of pest and disease, all vine material is hot-water treated using best practice methods.

All planting material is kept in cool storage awaiting customer pick-up. This keeps vines dormant and improves transportability.