There’s a romantic notion that making wine is living the dream. That it’s a glamorous lifestyle, full of sharing wines, traipsing through vineyards, travel, and squashing grapes into liquid heaven. For the most part, it is the dream, but it also takes a lot of hard work, blood, sweat and tears to bring you delicious wines from the vineyard to the table.

Raidis Estate is a proudly South Australian family-run winery. The team is driven by a passion and a belief that through making elegant, small batch wines designed to be consumed with the best of company and delicious food, that they are adding value to the lives of others.

Emma and Stevo spend a lot of time crafting their wines and getting them just right. It’s a passion that is hard to put into words, but seeing their bottles on others’ tables being consumed with family or friends will always put a smile on their faces.

Their Greek heritage has inspired them to work the land. Since leaving Greece more than 60 years ago, Chris and his wife Fran have worked the Terra Rossa soils of Coonawarra, growing tomatoes, lettuces and strawberries.

Their son Steven joined in the family business, planting vines in 1990, and from there the winemaking passion grew into this proudly family-run business.

Stevo and his wife Emma are the family behind the wines and spend their days crafting wines, taking guests through tastings in the cellar door, attending events and activations to get the word out there about their wines, and putting on some cracking events in the Coonawarra as well.

It is a passion, it is a lifestyle, and along with raising their two beautiful children they are living the winemaking dream.

So next time you pick up a bottle of wine off the shelf in your local bottle shop or stop in at a cellar door, just remember that you may just be supporting a dream and nurturing a passion.
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