Established in 2015, Bec Hardy Wines is a family-owned wine business based in McLaren Vale, South Australia. Bec is the 6th generation member and the first female vigneron from one of Australian’s oldest wine families, the Hardys. Bec Hardy is one of Mclaren Vale’s newest but most historic premium wineries. There’s no contradiction there; the Hardy’s name has been synonymous with South Australian wine since the 1850s and Bec Hardy continues that tradition, building on the experience and reputation of her predecessors including Thomas Hardy who is regarded as the ‘‘father of the South Australian wine industry’’. Just as Geoff Hardy left the family company to make his own way in 1980, his daughter Bec is making her mark with the formation of Bec Hardy Wines which she has established with her husband, Richard Dolan in 2015. In 2020, Bec took over the ownership and running of the Pertaringa brand in McLaren Vale, which was established by her father Geoff Hardy in 1980.