Our Heritage

Loading barrels of wine for export in the 1930s at the original Hamilton's Ewell Vineyards winery near Glenelg, South Australia.

Hamilton’s Ewell Vineyards Pty Ltd is a modern grape growing business with roots tracing back to the very foundation of the wine industry in the infant colony of South Australia in 1837 when Hamilton family forbears’ Richard and Ann Hamilton, and eight of their nine children, arrived aboard the Katherine Stewart Forbes on 13 October 1837.

Click here (668 Kb) for a snapshot of our history and heritage "South Australia’s First Family of Wine is Born".

Descendants of Richard Hamilton

View a chart of six generations of descendants of Richard Hamilton [50 Kb PDF file]