‘THE REAL SEA CHANGE -30 YEARS AHEAD OF
THEIR TIME’
Galafrey remains family-owned business and all wines are grown,
nurturedand bottled on the estate in Mount Barker WA. Established by Ian Tyrer(1946-2003). Galafrey Wines is survived by mother and daughter team, Lindaand Kim Tyrer. Linda and Kim maintain a hands-on role to ensure that the Galafrey philosophy is upheld.The characteristically cool climate of the district ensures slow ripening of thegrapes, which allows for the development of rich flavours and quality grapejuice. Galafrey Wines is committed to producing fruit of the highest quality,with a philosophy that quality fruit is the key to winemaking excellence.
The Great Southern region is one of the remote wine areas of
Australia,spread unevenly over an area of 150km from north to south and 100kmacross east to west. The first vineyard was planted in 1966 and the first wine made in 1972 and all around the town of Mount Barker.
Viticulture arrived in Mount Barker in 1964 when Bill Jamieson and Dorham
Mann from the WA Agriculture Department were digging holes in the land and
following the research carried out by the distinguished climatologist and soil
scientist, Dr John Gladstone.
Back in 1980 the Western Australian government were printing a map of the 'new' wine industry so we had to come up with a name for this. Galafrey Wines is a family owned business, our surname ‘Tyrer’ was too hard for people to say (correctly!) or any reference to geographical location was either taken or unpronounceable. So we got a blackboard and had everyone put suggestions for a name on it. Later we had a dinner party with some of the original winemakers of the district and after copious amount of red wine, we thought Galafrey was the best! The name Galafrey comes from Dr Who. Gallifrey is the home planet of the time lords hence Doctor Who, we changed the spelling so the BBC would not sue us! Galafrey, if broken into two- Gala – is Greek for joyous and Frey- a Nordic god of happiness, harvest, love, peace. So we believe it is a nice sounding name. 
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Galafrey Wines remains a family-owned business and all wines are grown, nurtured and bottled on the estate in Mount Barker WA. Established by Ian Tyrer (1946-2003). Galafrey Wines is survived by mother and daughter team, Linda and Kim Tyrer. Linda and Kim maintain a hands-on role to ensure that the Galafrey philosophy is upheld.