Tizzana Winery

Built in 1887 by Dr Thomas Fiaschi — Florentine surgeon, decorated soldier, viticulturalist — the three-storey sandstone winery at Sackville Reach sat derelict after a 1955 arson fire until Peter and Carolyn Auld began restoring it in 1969. The original cellars survive. So does the improbable logic of a nineteenth-century Italian doctor planting French and Italian cuttings on the Hawkesbury.