Australian Wineries
"The vines were brought here on the first ships
in 1788 and planted at Farm Cove, Sydney.
No wonder we like a drink"!
Australian Wineries now produce some of
the very best wines in the world.
Wine making has been dated back before the Bronze age, that is somewhere around c.3500 - 2900BC. The people of the world have not changed that much,
we still like a drink. Grape growing and winemaking spread throughout Europe and finally onto the ships to land in Australia in 1788. Vines were originally planted in Australia at Farm Cove.
Due to various difficulties, such as problems with growing conditions and storage, wine making did not quite take off until vines arrived from France some years later.
But Australian wine making certainly kicked on from there.
Some time in the early 1820's Aussie wine makers had produced some 90 thousand litres. And we were also already picking up our share of medals back in Europe.
Wine growing was spreading throughout Australia. In the 1900's we were suppling great quantities of wine to the United Kingdom, somewhere around 4.5
million litres, mainly reds.
The rest is history; Australia is now a major wine producing country.
Taste the reds, visit our famous wine country, travel from the pristine wilderness of Tasmania in the
south to Cape York in the north, journey from the Pacific to the Indian Oceans ... there are vineyards and wineries to visit all over Australia.
Special Feature
Banrock Station
Banrock Station on the beautiful Murray River at Kingston-On-Murray is a great winery to visit with a unique wildlife and natural vegatation reserve being nurtured by the winery. In fact
with each bottle of wine sold at Banrock Station the company puts money towards wildlife conservation, not just at its own reserve but for conservation projects right around Australia and even
overseas.
VISIT BANROCK STATION
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Regardless of your preference, there are vineyards and wineries in abundance, dozens of cellar doors open to the public all around Australia and
they are all worth visiting and what is more, there is a wine that will satisfy every taste.
A journey you might like to try; take a couple of friends, fly to Melbourne, hire a car and drive the Great Ocean Road through to South Australia and stay in some of
the B & B's along the way, taking in all the wineries of the Victorian and South Australian wine country. Or fly to Western Australia and take the Margaret River wine tour and there are more in the New South Wales' Hunter Valley, Tasmania and Queensland.
Hopefully you will be able to remember, the great memories that you created. Take the camera! After your first visit to the Australian wine country we know you will
come back again.
There are a number of Vinyards and Wineries to visit and the staff are ready to pour and waiting for you to taste the wines! Take the tour.
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