altBack in 1980 the Western Australian government were printing a map of the 'new' wine industry so we had to come up with a name for this. Galafrey Wines is a family owned business, our surname ‘Tyrer’ was too hard for people to say (correctly!) or any reference to geographical location was either taken or unpronounceable. So we got a blackboard and had everyone put suggestions for a name on it. Later we had a dinner party with some of the original winemakers of the district and after copious amount of red wine, we thought Galafrey was the best!  The name Galafrey comes from Dr Who. Gallifrey is the home planet of the time lords hence Doctor Who, we changed the spelling so the BBC would not sue us! Galafrey, if broken into two- Gala – is Greek for joyous and Frey- a Nordic god of happiness, harvest, love, peace. So we believe it is a nice sounding name. 

 

 

 

Galafrey was  asked by the Dr Who Fan Club in London to produce the  1987 Chardonnay with an export label with a tardis on it  specially for them. And of course we get lots of fans coming to our cellar.

Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the home world of the Doctor and the Time Lords. It is supposed to be located in the constellation of Kasterborous, at "galactic coordinates ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero centre" (Pyramids of Mars, 1975), some 250 million light years away from Earth (as stated in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie; this would put it far outside our Milky Way galaxy, which is only 80-100 thousand light years in diameter).[1]

During the first decade of the television series, the name of the Doctor's home planet was not revealed, although it was actually shown for the first time in The War Games (1969) during the Doctor's trial. It was finally identified by name for the first time in The Time Warrior (1973) whilst the Doctor was being interrogated by the Sontaran Commander Linx. The Third Doctor, at gun-point, informed Linx that he was aware of the Sontaran species. Linx, realising that if the Doctor were human he would have no knowledge of his species, asks, "What is your native planet?" The Doctor replies, "Gallifrey. I am a Time Lord."

It is never definitively stated when the appearances of Gallifrey in the television series take place. As the planet is often reached by means of time travel, its relative present could conceivably exist anywhere in the Earth's past or future.[2]

Gallifrey's position in the revived series (2005 onwards) was filled in slowly over the first three years of the series' run. In Series 1, it had been implied that it was destroyed, along with the Dalek Empire, by the Doctor during the Time War. The planet was not referred to by name until the 2006 Christmas Special and wasn't shown on screen until "The Sound of Drums".