In 1861, John Walsh chose Nanango (est 1848), the fourth oldest town in Queensland to settle and buy freehold land when it first became available. The original block is still among the family holdings to this day.

Terry and Margaret, of the fourth generation, continued the pioneering tradition of their ancestors by planting a vineyard in 1998 on the rich creek flats of their Nanango property in the exciting new wine region of the South Burnett.

Whistle Stop Wines takes its name from the location of our cellar door: a renovated 1937 cottage situated in its original position in Nanango next to the old railway site which saw its first train in 1911 and its last in 1964.

Whistle Stop Wines' Cellar Door is a short distance from the location that John Walsh retired to.

As he listened to the whistle of the train when it passed by, would this traditional farmer have ever dreamed that his great grandson would be selling wine "just down the track"?