The assets of one of Australia’s most significant wine businesses, including 3 wineries, are for sale.

• Boar’s Rock McLaren Vale, South Australia,
• Boar’s Rock Waikerie, South Australia,
• Boar’s Rock Margaret River, Western Australia, are For Sale

Introduction

Boar’s Rock Pty Ltd is well known as a highly respected independent provider of wine industry services to significant local and international customers. Over a fifteen year period Boar’s Rock has established and developed a comprehensive business model covering procurement of wine grapes, crushing, wine making, bulk storage, barrel maturation, preparation for bottling and logistics. The Company has set the Australian industry standard in the provision of custom and contract wine making services. It has strategically placed wineries in 3 of Australia’s principal wine regions: McLaren Vale, the Riverland and Margaret River.

The Assets

The assets of Boar’s Rock Pty Ltd are offered for sale in one line, or in parts. The assets for sale include: the wineries, bulk wine stock, plant and equipment, intellectual property, and its share of a separate wine barrel leasing business.
The main features of each of the company’s production facilities are briefly listed below. A detailed information memorandum is available upon request.

Boar’s Rock Waikerie, SA

A very large and impressive production facility acquired in 2005 to extend the Boar’s Rock business model to Australia’s largest wine grape producing region, the Riverland.

• EPA processing licence: 40,000 tonnes.
• Grape assessment station and automated sampling.
• Grape receival facilities to suit: tip trucks; side-tipping bins.
• Crushing: Miller MC 1000 crusher destemmers.
• Red ferment capacity: over 3,200 tonnes per cycle.
• Press capacity: Bucher bag press; seven continuous presses.
• Centrifuges: 2 x Westfalia SC150; 2 x Alfa Laval.
• Fermenter size: from 25 to 60 tonnes.
• Fermenter style: rotary; Potter-style; static.
• Total storage capacity: around 30 million litres (mostly insulated and temperature controlled).
• Tank sizes: 21,000 to 370,000 litres.
• Winery area: 21,400 square metre.
• Office: 406 square metres.
• Total land area: 16.75 hectares.

Boar’s Rock McLaren Vale, SA

This facility is the company’s headquarters. It is a modern, purpose built winery, designed with efficiency in mind and situated on a highly visible site in the heart of this famous premium grape growing region, just south of Adelaide.

• EPA processing licence: 10,000 tonnes.
• Mettler Toledo digital weighbridge suitable for B-Double trucks.
• Grape receival facilities to suit: tip trucks; side-tipping bins; rotating-head forklifts (for large or small bins).
• Crushing: CME destemmer crushers
• Red ferment capacity: over 1,200 tonnes per cycle.
• Press capacity: 4 Diemme bag presses (15 tonnes to 32 tonnes).
• Centrifuge: Westfalia SC150.
• Fermenter size: 5 to 35 tonnes.
• Fermenter style: rotary; sweeping-arm; static and open.
• Total storage capacity: around 7.5 million litres (mostly insulated and temperature controlled).
• Stainless steel tank sizes: 1,100 to 104,000 litres.
• Barrel storage capacity: 8,000 approximately.
• Tank farm & barrel shed: 15,022 square metres.
• Office area: 593 square metres.
• Winery area: 15,615 square metres.
• Total land area: 10.041 hectares.

Boar’s Rock Margaret River, WA

This is the foremost production facility in Western Australia (formerly known as Evans and Tate Winery) and was acquired in 2007.

• EPA Processing license 10,000 tonnes.
• Grape receival facilities to suit: tip trucks; 1 tonne bins for rotating-head forklifts.
• Red ferment capacity: 1,370 tonnes per cycle.
• Press capacity: 4 Diemme & Wilmmes bag presses (15 tonnes to 25 tonnes).
• Centrifuge: Westfalia SC70.
• Fermenter size: from 5 to 40 tonnes.
• Fermenter style: rotary, sweeping arm, static.
• Total storage capacity: around 12.5 million litres (mostly insulated and temperature controlled).
• Tank sizes: 2,500 to 180,000 litres.
• Barrel storage capacity: 3,000 approximately.
• State of the art effluent treatment.
• Winery area: 5,625 square metres.
• Office area: 150 square metres.
• Total land area: 41.61 hectares.

Bulk Wine

There are significant inventories of bulk wine owned by the company which form part of the sale: a total of approximately 2.78 million litres is in storage at the wineries.

Moveable Plant and Equipment

Valuable moveable plant and equipment items, such as vehicles and forklifts, associated with each facility, form part of the sale.

Wine Barrel Leasing Business

Boar’s Rock is a 50% partner in a business which acquires and rents wine barrels to customers in Australia and New Zealand.
The main features of each of the company’s production facilities are briefly listed below. A detailed information memorandum is available upon request.

Inspections are strictly by appointment.

For further details please contact Tim Altschwager 0408 814 6... or Nick Dean 0411 267 1....