Jim Barry

Jim Barry Wines is a family-owned Clare Valley estate founded in 1959 by Jim and Nancy Barry, after Jim became the region’s first formally trained winemaker and spent more than two decades at Clarevale Cooperative. Over time the Barrys assembled an enviable patchwork of vineyards, including the Armagh site (planted from 1964) for top reds, Lodge Hill (acquired 1977) on the eastern ranges for high-altitude Riesling and Shiraz, and the famed Florita vineyard at Watervale (purchased 1986), long regarded as one of Aust…