Mudgee

Fast Facts

  • Latitude:
    32°36’S
  • Altitude:
    450–600 m
  • Heat degree days:
    2050
  • Growing season rainfall:
    360 mm
  • Mean January temp:
    22.9°C
  • Harvest:
    Late February to late March
  • Chief viticultural hazard:
    Drought

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Mudgee has its own particular history. Three German families – Roth, Kurtz and Buchholz – were instrumental in establishing vines from 1858, with the descendants of the first two carrying on viticulture for a century and keeping the tradition alive when all others had abandoned it. The next event of importance was the discovery of gold in 1872. This was nowhere near on the scale of Victoria’s gold rush, but was enough to bring people and prosperity to the district until the great bank crash of 1893.

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