Granite Belt winery Golden Grove Estate hits the right spot with drinkers

Ray Costanzo remembers fussing around his grandfather Mario’s knees as a toddler while the old man prepared the latest vintage on the family’s Granite Belt farm. More than three decades later the younger Costanzo’s Golden Grove Estate is one of the country’s most awarded winemakers and a flagbearer for the Granite Belt’s growing reputation for quality vintages. Throughout Queensland there are about 1500 hectares of wine vineyards, mostly in the southeast.