Hardys

Hardys began with Thomas Hardy, who arrived in South Australia in 1850 and bought the riverside property he called Bankside in 1853. He bought Tintara in McLaren Vale in 1876. By 1887 his sons James, Thomas Nathaniel and Robert had joined him in Thomas Hardy & Sons, carrying the founder’s work into another generation.

Eileen Hardy became a public face of the house after her husband’s death in 1938, and the first wine bearing her name followed in 1973. McLaren Vale is its historic home, but Hardys also selects and blends fruit from other Australian regions.