Frank Mitolo commenced his own wine company as a result of a keen interest in wine and winemaking. His background is in horticulture, producing potatoes and onions which are sold Australia wide and internationally. His company is the largest of its type in the Southern Hemisphere. Frank toyed with small-scale winemaking for six years before deciding to produce commercially and in 2000 formed Mitolo Wines. Frank teamed with his friend, Ben Glaetzer (Ben and his father Colin Glaetzer make wines together under the well regarded Glaetzer Wines label), with the implicit goal of creating the very best interpretation of McLaren Vale and Barossa Valley Shiraz using the very best fruit, non-interventionist wine making and super fine oak. Visit the Mitolo website.