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Beckingham Wines is a family owned urban winery in Moorabbin, VIC. 


Find out more about our range of high-quality wines by contacting our team today and see how our passionate winemakers use the unique landscape and climate to produce exceptional wines.

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Family-Owned Winery 

Beckingham Wines is a family-owned, urban winery. 


We are passionate about our winemaking. We source grapes from trusted growers also passionate about wine, because great grapes are needed to make great wine. 


At the winery, we crush, ferment, mature and finally bottle our range of sparkling, whites, reds and fortified wines. You are welcome to visit us most weekends.


Peter Beckingham – Chief Winemaker and passionate chemical engineer. Peter brings state of the art technology to winemaking such as reverse osmosis .


Ann Beckingham – Quality Assurance manager. Ann  assists with the finishing steps of each wine.

Our Wines

A New Home in Moorabbin

By then, the winery had well and truly taken over the family home. Ann suggested that Peter find a factory for all the equipment, leading to the move to Factory 7 at 477 Warrigal Road, Moorabbin, in January 1998.

With more room came greater production. Peter obtained the necessary licences and began making wine for growers as well as producing his own. Production reached around 20 tonnes by 2000 and an extraordinary 84 tonnes in 2004, while Peter was still working full-time as an engineer.

The 2004 vintage included 30 tonnes of sparkling wine, around 25,000 bottles. With the winery continuing to grow, Mark Burt joined as a full-time cellar master late that year.

Our History

Engineering a Different Approach to Wine

Peter's background in chemical engineering has always shaped his approach to winemaking. Rather than accepting that something cannot be done, he has often designed, adapted or combined equipment to find another way.

Around 2008, UK journalist Rob Crossley discovered Peter while researching interesting chemical engineers. Crossley's feature explored how Peter combined his engineering career with winemaking and highlighted the equipment he had developed, including a bottling line assembled for less than $8,000 using a combination of purchased, adapted and purpose-built components.

Vintage Years

Experiments, Awards and an Unexpected Cherry Liqueur

Contract winemaking became an important part of the operation, and Peter made trophy-winning sparkling wines at the Winewise wine show for three consecutive years from 2008 to 2010.

One of the more unusual projects arrived on New Year's Day 2017, when a local cherry grower called with four tonnes of cherries he wanted turned into liqueur. The fruit arrived the next day. With insufficient fortifying spirit available, Peter chilled the cherry juice to near freezing while additional alcohol was sourced to prevent fermentation from consuming its natural sweetness. The experiment worked, and Peter later presented the resulting cherry liqueur on the television program Winesquad.

Purchase Our Wines

We sell our wines directly from the winery, which you can visit most days from 10am until 3pm; We suggest you ring first. 


We’re proud to offer our excellent wines right from the source, so don’t hesitate to visit us or email your order to us in advance on peter@beckinghamwines.com.au.

Family-Owned Since Day One

Our family combines winemaking expertise, innovation and quality assurance to produce wines customers can enjoy with confidence.

Family Owned

Independent winery committed to personalised service and exceptional handcrafted wines.

Premium Quality

Carefully selected grapes create wines with outstanding flavour and consistency.

Modern Techniques

Advanced winemaking technology enhances quality while respecting traditional methods.

Commercial Winemaking Services

We offer a wide range of commercial wine services, including:

  • Table wine production from pressing/crushing all the way through to bottled product. (or any portion of the process)
  • Sparkling wine production. (we can do the whole process or just tirage your base wine)
  • Fortified wine production
  • Our team can deliver contract disgorging
  • Contract bottling
  • VA removal
  • Wine concentration
  • Alcohol reduction

For more information on what we can do for your business, don’t hesitate to contact us today.

From a First Vintage to Beckingham Wines

It all began in 1992, when Ann gave Peter Beckingham a winemaking course at Box Hill TAFE for his 40th birthday. Through the course lecturer, Peter found himself working for free during the 1992 vintage at the Bianchet family winery in Lilydale. He brought some grapes home and decided to have a go himself.

The first attempt was not quite what Peter had hoped for, but there was enough promise to try again. Then came the brilliant 1993 Yarra Valley vintage. Peter made a 225-litre barrel each of Shiraz, Cabernet and sparkling wine. The results were exceptional, and even 20 years later the wines were still drinking beautifully. Winemaking had become more than an experiment.

When Winemaking Took Over the Driveway

By 1997, Peter had around 15 mates helping, and the winemaking equipment had spread from the basement to the garage and driveway.

That year, red grapes were difficult for amateur winemakers to find. Sam Plunkett offered Peter the opportunity to glean fruit left behind by the mechanical harvester in his vineyards. The team would leave at 5 am for the Strathbogie Ranges, pick throughout the day and return to Brighton to crush the grapes in the driveway after dark.

The hard work produced remarkable wines. Peter's Cabernet won the trophy for best amateur red wine at the Victorian wine show, narrowly ahead of his Shiraz. The Shiraz later won a trophy at the Eltham wine guild, while his Traminer was runner-up for a trophy at the Lilydale wine show.

Explore Our Services

Choose from premium wines, wine club membership, commercial winemaking and expert contract production.

Visit Our Urban Winery

Visit our Melbourne winery to purchase wines directly from the source and speak with our passionate family team. We recommend calling ahead before visiting to ensure we're available to welcome you. Whether you're looking for premium wines or commercial winemaking expertise, Beckingham Wines offers personalised service backed by experience, innovation and genuine passion for quality winemaking.

Science, Wine and What Comes Next

More recently, Peter has focused on developing reverse osmosis technology to solve winemaking problems and improve wine quality. The process can be used to concentrate flavour, reduce alcohol and remove unwanted volatile acidity.

This technology has also helped local wineries recover marginal wines. In one case, heavy rain immediately before harvest reduced the sugar level of Chardonnay grapes from 21 Brix to 16. Reverse osmosis was used to remove excess water and restore concentration to the resulting wine.

In September 2026, Goodwill Wines visited the Moorabbin winery and captured what makes Beckingham Wines different: a place where winemaking, chemical engineering, experimentation and machinery all come together. Their feature describes Peter's operation as part laboratory, part wine cellar and part inventor's workshop, with everything from reverse osmosis and precision fermentation equipment to sparkling wine machinery sharing the space.

Meet the Mad Scientist of Melbourne Wine

After more than three decades, the curiosity that started it all remains. There are still wines to make, technologies to explore and problems to solve. And now Beckingham Wines is moving into beer production too, simply because there is always something different worth trying.

Enjoy handcrafted wines and expert winemaking services backed by family passion and experience.

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