The total numbers of wine producers in Australia have increased from 1625 to 2299 between 2003 and 2011.The Australian wine industry has a major share in the Australian economy. Australia is the fourth largest producer of wine in the world with an international export market of over 400 million liters annually, in addition to an equivalent domestic market.

McLaren Vale, the home of the Curtis Family Vineyards, is just 45 minutes' drive south of South Australia's capital of Adelaide, has been making wine for one and a half centuries. That's not as long as wine has been made in Italy, but the results are just as encouraging. And how a family with its ancestry dating back to the 15th Century has brought its expertise to McLaren vale with a new range of wines with an impressive European lineage.