John Charles Brown joins his father on the Milawa Vineyard. 6000 gallons of Tawny Port is exported to London in oak hogsheads. Brown Brothers table wines find a ready market among the newly arrived Italian tobacco growers in the Ovens Valley 1937 Further replanting of the 38-acre Milawa Vineyard begins with Shiraz, Cabernet, Grenache, Riesling, Tokay, White Grenache, White Hermitage, Palomino and Muscat varieties. A plague of grasshoppers destroys the 1938 vintage. Eight inches of rain in February breaks two years of drought and very poor vintages.
Drought restricts production to below the sales quota level.
1945 Purchase of grapes from local growers boosts the vintage to 140 tons. The old Barn is floored with bricks and used for additional wine storage. A third of the property is cleared and planted to vines. Everton Hills wines are to become renowned for low quantity, high quality and for their ageing potential. 1958 John Graham Brown joins his father at the winery - the third generation of Family Winemakers at Milawa.