After copper ore deposits were discovered in 1845, the property was split into sections: Burra Burra Mine and the Princess Royal Mining Company. How ever, after yielding only £7,000 to its shareholders the land was sold as a sheep station in 1851. The Princess Royal Homestead, built in July 1864 on the site of the abandoned mining village, is now one of Burra’s most important and significant buildings.

The home of Burra Creek Wines, Princess Royal Station is still a 23,000 acre working pastoral station. In 2000 Bob and Simon Rowe, met with a friend and respected winemaker Andrew Hardy and identified a perfect site for growing vines.

This was the beginning of Burra Creek Wines.

The property now produces 30 acres of dry grown cabernet and shiraz grapes and has revived a unique style of full bodied, robust Australian red wine namely Cabernet Shiraz – a style reminiscent of the traditional reds enjoyed by landowners and pastoralists in the 1940s and 1950s.