the story of pachamama
In 2010, at sunrise, Callie and her dad and stood overlooking Machu Picchu,
an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains of Peru.
While their guide shared stories about Pachamama — an ancient Incan fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting (you may know her as Mother Nature), the fog lifted, slowly exposing the transcendent ruins hiding below.
They were told about the ongoing Andean tradition of giving a toast in honor of Pachamama and, in some regions, a special kind of libation (known as a challa) is performed where a small amount of wine is spilled onto the ground to express deep gratitude to Mother Nature and to give back to the earth.
This trip inspired the beginnings of Pachamama.
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the winemaker
the winemaker
Driving Pachamama is winemaker Callie Jemmeson.Wine is in Callie’s blood; her family has been in the industry for almost 5 decades. School holidays were spent travelling to Champagne or Tuscany and weekends were filled with family and friends gathered around lavish tables set with great wine, food and laughter.
After first exploring a career as a chef Callie decided that she wanted to be sitting at the table and sharing the fruits of her labour alongside smiles and great stories rather than back of house in the weeds; the rest is history.
Some of that history includes a bachelor in wine science from CSU, vintages in Italy, France and California along with some good old fashioned grunt work earning her chops at De Bortoli in the Yarra Valley.
Callie was a finalist for the Australian women in wine awards and the Young Gun of Wine awards, achieved a 5-star Halliday rating, and has been invited to judge at the Victorian and Yarra Valley wine shows.
our philosophy
Pachamama was born of a journey to Machu Picchu, where the spirit of Mother Nature inspired winemaker Callie.
Over the last 12 years, she has shaped Pachamama into a winery with purpose, dedicated to making impeccably balanced and elegant wines, always striving to connect people, place, and nature.
We pay deep respect to the land from which our grapes are grown, embracing a gentle, light-handed approach to winemaking.
At our small-batch winery in the Yarra Valley, nestled in the hills northwest of Healesville, we capture the purity, character, and seasonality of each vintage.