1880 Pfeiffer Light Pass Vineyard (Shiraz & Semillon – Peter Lehmann Wines), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1880s Chapman Vineyard A Block (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1880s Seppeltsfield Road (Shiraz and Mataro Rolf Binder), Barossa Valley, South Australia c1880s Standish Estate 1880s Vines (vine age – Grenache & Mataro) Barossa Valley, South Australia 1881 Schiller Family Johanns Find Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1881 In a letter to Melbourne’s Argus newspaper in February 1881, Hubert de Castella suggests that Australia should become a part of France’s solution to its supply difficulties; the Act for the Prevention and Eradication of Diseases in Vines is gazetted by the Western Australian Legislature; phylloxera never arrives 1883 Roseworthy Agricultural College is founded near Gawler, South Australia
1872 Bordeaux’s Médoc can only pick half the quantity of grapes as were picked the previous year; Overland Telegraph Line between Port Augusta and Darwin, a distance of 3,200 kilometres, is installed, and completed, enabling faster communication of wine orders from export markets 1877 Phylloxera is observed and confirmed at Fyansford, Victoria; strict quarantine measures are enforced across colonial Australia and within Victoria to curtail its spread 1875 Kalleske Johann Georg Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia c1875 Z Wines Hein Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia c1880 Woodlands PF Zimmerman Vineyard (Caiazza Family/ Purple Hands Planta Circa Grenache & Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1880 Frater Vineyard, Rowland Flat (Grenache), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1880 Kolovs Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1880 Poonawatta 1880 Vineyard (Shiraz), Eden Valley, South Australia
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Medlands Vineyard (Shiraz – Wolf Blass), Barossa Valley, South Australia Bonview Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia Schrapel 1885 Vineyard Ebenezer (Shiraz – Torbreck), Barossa Valley, South Australia
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1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London further aids exports; Anglo-Spanish Treaty is enacted; tariffs are reduced for wines below 30 degrees of proof spirit; exports to England from South Australia increase from previous year’s 60,000 gallons to 145,000 gallons; plantings accelerate; John Bull’s Vineyard, Australian Sketches, by Hubert de Castella, is published; vineyard plantings around Rutherglen accelerate
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