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SECONDHAND BOOK
High hopes were held for the wine trade in nineteenth century Australia. Nowhere was this more evident than in southerly Victoria in the 1860s when gold rush immigrant settlers enthusiastically planted vineyards. Political leaders prophesied that wine would be as important an export as gold or wool. Early vintages were compared with those of classic European vineyards, such as Pommard in Burgundy. Vineyards sprang up around Melbourne and Geelong. In central Victoria, goldfields gave way to vineyards as mining declined. Great estates were built in the Yarra Valley, at Sunbury and at Rutherglen. By the 1890s an export trade was underway. Victorian wine makers could boast successes in the international show-ring and the largest acreage under vine of any of the Australian colonies. Why the collapse? Drawing on contemporary accounts and on extensive local sources, David Dunstan tells the story of wine’s rise and fall in Victoria. His lively and informative book brings wine into the mainstream of Australian social and political history.
Specifications:
Condition: Fair – spine very faded, some marks to edges of pages.
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing and the Museum of Victoria
Year: 1994
Format: Paperback
Pages: 265pp
ISBN: 9781875606139
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