Wine & Music

Burke & Wills Winery is a small family run business in the Heathcote Wine Region, owned and operated by winemaker and music entrepreneur Andrew Pattison and his wife Heather McCormack. We produce a wide range of quality wines with a focus on premium wines from our home vineyard.

Andrew Pattison, founder of Melbourne’s famous ‘eighties music venue The Troubadour, former owner of Lancefield Winery in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges is nowadays owner and winemaker at Burke & Wills Winery in the famous Heathcote wine region. Andrew is also a music festival director and music promoter, who also kept The Troubadour flame alive by running a mobile version of the venue as a prominent but intimate marquee venue at several of eastern Australia’s top folk festivals. Read more about Andrew’s music history here on the music page.

Heather McCormack is the “other half” of Burke & Wills Winery, and takes the role of pruner of our home vineyard, general vineyard work, running the necessary lab tests and accounts and off sides Andrew as and when needed. Luckily she loves the outdoor work and lifestyle and is the caretaker of the farmyard of animals, with special care and love for the equine parts of the Burke & Wills Family, especially for the Clydesdales that call us home.