Murray Darling

Fast Facts

  • Latitude:
    34°10’S
  • Altitude:
    55-70 m
  • Heat degree days:
    2150-2240
  • Growing season rainfall:
    130-150 mm
  • Mean January temp:
    23.7°C
  • Harvest:
    Early February to mid March
  • Chief viticultural hazard:
    Drought

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The wheel of fortune seems to have turned full circle since the crisis of the 1893 great bank crash (and consequent depression) and of a severe, long-lasting drought, which led to the bankruptcy of the visionary founder of Mildura, William Chaffey, in 1897. The drought halted all river trafficon the Murray, which stopped flowing, leaving alternative pools and dry stretched of sand to mark its course.

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