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and Aylwin Pownall establish a growing market for Australian red wine in the UK; Burgoyne is convinced that the public prefers ‘the fuller bodied, generous Burgundies produced under the Australian sun over the thinner and colder wines of the Continent’. Kaesler Old Bastard Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia Philippou ‘Old’ Vineyard (Shiraz, Grenache & Semillon), Barossa Valley, South Australia Steinert Vineyard (Shiraz – Powell & Sons), Eden Valley South Australia Elderton Command Vineyard (Shiraz & Cabernet Sauvignon), Barossa Valley, South Australia Mibus Charlie’s Block, Kalimna (Grenache), Barossa Valley, South Australia Seppeltsfield GR5 Vineyard (Grenache), Barossa Valley, South Australia Harch Brockenchak 1896 plantings (Riesling), Eden Valley, South Australia Eperosa Magnolia Vine Vale Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia Anderson Vineyard (Grenache & Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia Lou Miranda Angel’s Vineyard Rowland Flat (Shiraz & Mataro), Barossa Valley, South Australia Kaesler Bogan Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia

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Haese Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia

Penfolds Kalimna Vineyard Block 42 (Cabernet Sauvignon), Barossa Valley, South Australia c1888 Hoffman Dimchurch Vineyard Dallwitz Block (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1889 Yalumba Tri-centenary Vineyard VG05 (Grenache), Barossa Valley, South Australia c1890s Gersch Old Vineyard Block (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia c1890s Lindner Pure Eden Vineyard (Shiraz), Eden Valley, Barossa, South Australia c1890s Lindner Wattlebrae Vineyard (Shiraz), Eden Valley, Barossa, South Australia c1890 Woodlands PF Zimmerman Vineyard (Cabernet Sauvignon Caiazza Family/ Planta Circa), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1890 Colin Burge Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1890 Grant Burge Chaff Hill Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1890 Grope Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1890 Lange Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1890 Hampel Moppa Block Vineyard (Shiraz & Mataro), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1890 Riedl Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1890 Pine Park Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1890 The colony of Victoria produces 7.1 million litres of wine compared to 2 million litres in South Australia and 3.1 million litres in New South Wales; the Victorian Government passes the Vine Diseases Act 1890s Widespread economic depression in Australia but export market for Australian Burgundy booms; Peter Bond Burgoyne

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1899 Nettlebeck Vineyard (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1899 South Australia’s Phylloxera Act further strengthens protection of vineyards from phylloxera, which has never before arrived in the state; phylloxera arrives in Rutherglen, Victoria, which represents a third of Australia’s wine production (by 1907, the original vineyard plantings at Rutherglen would be all but destroyed, although a new planting programme started in

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