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A U S T R A L I A ' S O L D V I N E S AUSTRALIAN WINE DISCOVERED Australias unique climate and landscape have fostered a fiercely independent wine scene, home to a vibrant community of growers, winemakers, viticulturists, and vignerons.

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AUSTRALIAN WINE DISCOVERED

A U S T R A L I A ' S O L D V I N E S

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Australia’s unique climate and landscape have fostered a fiercely independent wine scene, home to a vibrant community of growers, winemakers, viticulturists, and

  • vignerons. With more than 100

grape varieties grown across 65 distinct wine regions, we have the freedom to make exceptional wine, and to do it our own way. We’re not beholden by tradition, but continue to push the boundaries in the pursuit

  • f the most diverse, thrilling wines

in the world. That’s just our way.

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  • History of Australia’s
  • ld vines
  • The definition of

‘old’ vines

  • Do old vines mean

better wines?

  • Australia’s old-vine

regions and material

TODAY WE’LL COVER…

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  • Pioneering grapegrowers

and winemakers

  • Pre-phylloxera vine stock
  • Early wine success
  • The launch of Australia’s

multigenerational winemaking families

HOME TO SOME OF THE OLDEST VINES, OLDEST GEOLOGY AND MOST COMPLEX TERROIRS IN THE WORLD

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A number of Australian vineyards planted during this time still produce grapes today – some of the oldest surviving and continuously producing vines in the world

1840s –1870s

James Busby’s significant collection of vine cuttings arrives in Australia

1832

Australia’s first vines planted in Sydney’s Botanic Garden

1788

A BRIEF HISTORY

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WELL-DEVELOPED ROOT SYSTEM LESS FOLIAGE AND SHOOTS LOWER-YIELDING GRAPE BUNCHES COMPLEX SOILS, MICRONUTRIENTS

OLD VINES D E F I N E D

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35+

OLD VINET SURVIVOR VINES ANCESTOR VINES CENTENARIAN VINES

100+ 70+ 125+

B A RO S S A O L D V I N E C H A RT E R

HPW OLD IS OLD?

YEARS

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  • Old vines versus young vines
  • Factors influencing old-vine wines
  • Passion and place

DO OLD VINES M A KE B E T T E R W I N E S ?

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SLIDE 9 Kilometres 500

AUSTRALIA'S OLD-VINE

W I N E R E G I O N S

TASMANIA WESTERN AUSTRALIA SOUTH AUSTRALIA QUEENSLAND NEW SOUTH WALES VICTORIA NORTHERN TERRITORY

BAROSSA VALMEZ LANGHORNE creek great western nagambie lakes rutherglen hunter vaLMey McLAREN VALE CLARF VALMEZ SWAN VALLEY

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Sturt Hwy

S O U T H AUSTRALIA

Barosta Valmey

ADELAIDE

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  • Vines dating back to 1842
  • Home to the world’s oldest Shiraz,

Mourvèdre and Grenache vines

  • Barossa old-vine varieties:
  • Shiraz
  • Mourvèdre
  • Grenache
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Riesling
  • Chardonnay
  • Semillon

B A R O S S A VA L L E Y

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SLIDE 12 Newell Hwy Oxley Hwy M i t c h e l l H w y

N S W A N D ACT REGION

Huntes VaLMEZ

SYDNEY

WOLLONGONG NEWCASTLE

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  • Vineyards dating back to the 1860s;

some of the vines here exist nowhere else in the world

  • The largest acreage of old vines

(mostly Shiraz) growing on its own roots

  • Tyrrell’s Wines, which has been

Australian-family-owned since 1858, is known for its six ‘Sacred Sites’

  • ld-vine blocks
  • Charles King planted Shiraz in the

Old Hill vineyard at Mount Pleasant in 1880, making those vines some of the oldest in the Hunter Valley

H U N T E R VALLEY

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Sturt Hwy D u k

S O U T H AUSTRALIA

Langhorne Crefk

ADELAIDE

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Home to the oldest accredited Cabernet Sauvignon vines in the world, planted at the Metala vineyard in 1891.

LANGHORNE C R E E K

Credit: FPT/Adam Bruzzone
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Sturt Hwy

S O U T H AUSTRALIA

Clare Valmey

ADELAIDE

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Wendouree Cellars’ claim to fame is its prized old-vine Shiraz. First planted in 1893, these dry-grown vines are still producing beautiful fruit today.

CLARE VALLEY

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  • Tahbilk in Nagambie Lakes, the
  • ldest winery in Victoria, boasts

the oldest Marsanne vines – planted in 1927 – and the largest single acreage of Marsanne in the world.

  • The famed Nursery Block at

Best’s Wines in Great Western is believed to hold the most extensive collection of pre- phylloxera plantings in Australia – and possibly the world. Because of the scarcity of its Pinot Meunier plantings, Best’s winery makes this wine

  • nly in the best vintages.
  • Rutherglen, once a gold mining

town, famed for its fortified wines.

OTHER OLD-VINE R E G I O N S A N D S I T E S

AUSTRALIA'S

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Home to a rich winemaking history, with some of the oldest geology and most complex terroirs in the world, Australia’s vineyards are cultivated by multigenerational winemaking

  • families. Australian wine is an

expression of place: both where we are, and where we’re going next.

OLD VINES N E W WAYS

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T H A N K Y O U