Cabernet, Deep Woods Reserve Cabernet, Fraser Gallop, cult wine producer Cloudburst and others have released exquisite vintages in recent times. While the original vinestock material for the Houghton clone is referenced by some observers as having arrived in Western Australia around 1830 from the Cape Colony (South Africa), this is highly unlikely. The first recorded importation of cabernet sauvignon took place in 1837 when William Macarthur of Camden Park, New South Wales brought in the variety from Barton and Guestier in Bordeaux. Charles Ferguson the owner of Houghton’s, one of Western Australia’s oldest wineries in the Swan Valley, claimed the vines first planted on
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The Vintage Journal – Regional Focus
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