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Haselgrove expands as focus shifts
Advertiser Newspaper – 24th November 2009 – Alexandra Economou
McLaren Vale’s Haselgrove Wines will expand its production and storage facilities, as the winery shifts its focus to small-batch premium winemaking.
The expansion plans were part of a review of Haselgrove’s operations, which began last year after BankWest sold the winery to a group of businessmen. The new owners included Festival City Wines managing director Don Totino.
The Italian Job
A famous McLaren Vale winery now boasts Italian magic, writes Tony Love
The Advertiser – Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Today we’ll speak only Italian. The words, a wicked smile, and a jab in the ribs come from prominent Italian businessman Don Totino, who owns the food-and-wine distribution company Festival City. Don also owns a wine company, Totino, based in the Adelaide Hills, and in the past two years he has joined three other southern Italian-Australian business identities in breathing life back into Haselgrove, set in the midriff of the McLaren Vale wine region.
The Haselgrove family brand has a history stretching back a century, but in the past two decades it struggled and found itself taken over by Bankwest in 2002, until early 2008. Grasping the potential of the name, Read the rest of this page »