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
1882
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
1885 1885
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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