Arguably Australia's most remote wine region, Albany has recently been added to Australia's official Geographical Indications index. It is one of five regions in the Great Southern zone, along with Porongurups, Mount Barker, Denmark and Frankland.

The Albany sub-region boasts approximately 100 hectares under vine and 12 vineyards, with six labels including Montgomery's Hill.

Father of Western Australia's wine industry, Dr John Gladstones, who originally recommended Margaret River as the Western Australian district with the most viticultural potential, now acknowledges the exciting future of the Great Southern, and particularly Albany, which he has likened to the famous Bordeaux district of Medoc.

Naval surgeon and physician, Lieutenant Wilson was in the area between 1822 and 1836 as Surgeon-Superintendent on a number of convict ships. He decided to examine the Kalgan River, and when the party reached the upper reaches of the river in their whale-boat, noted that the land about the banks where they landed "appeared well adapted for the growth of the vine". Today this very spot is the centre of the Montgomery Hill vineyard.

Typically the region enjoys a cool Mediterranean climate with modifying maritime influences, and on annual rainfall of 800mm. The predominant soils are well draining gravelly loams.

Montgomery's Hill is situated on the edge of a plateau, on gently inclined slopes that run down to the Kalgan River. The base rocks are augen gneiss covered with rich red brown loams overlying sandy clay loams interspersed with ironstone, a soil profile considered ideal for viticulture.