Pruning 19th Century Grenache vines, Cirillo
1850 Torbreck Hillside Vineyard 1850 plantings (Shiraz), Barossa Valley, South Australia 1851 The Great Exhibition is held in London; the colony of Victoria is founded; the Gold Rush begins 1852 First iron-hulled steam ships plough the seas between Australia and England; Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, previously First President of France’s Second Republic, becomes Emperor Napoleon III of France’s Second Empire 1853 France takes possession of New Caledonia in the Pacific 1853-56Crimean War 1853 Hewitson Old Garden (Mourvèdre/ Mataro), Barossa Valley, South Australia
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