Wynns Connawarra Estate was founded in 1891 by the Scottish immigrant John Riddoch. Riddoch had leased his property in plots to fruit and wine growers and also planted 52 hectares of his own vines in the Terra Rossa soil. This deep clay and limestone soil is the ideal base for exquisite dry red wines, thought David and Samuel Wynn, who bought the winery in 1951. This made them far ahead of their time, because back then in Australia people preferred to drink port-like fortified wines. But their success proved them right, to this day.