For 35 years, Peter Milhinch worked in a dark room practicing optometry. His hankering was to one day be tending vines...but it would be a journey with a twist.
Peter has given new meaning to the term "seize the day". Three years after planting a 10-acre vineyard at Seppeltsfield in the Barossa in 1999, he and wife Sharyn were rewarded with a magnificent flush of black, juicy, flavoursome fruit bombs!
Almost simultaneously, Peter was diagnosed with cancer but after six months of treatment, and inspired by 7-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, Peter and Sharyn made a decision to "seize the day".
They made a Rosé - because they didn't know how much time Pete had and a red wine maturing in barrel may take too long - and called it Seize the Day!
Eight years later and they are still living the dream and now producing fabulous Barossa Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon...and of course, their famous Rosé!