Nagambie Lakes

Fast Facts

  • Latitude:
    36°42’S
  • Altitude:
    130–350 m
  • Heat degree days:
    1694
  • Growing season rainfall:
    250 mm
  • Mean January temp:
    21.2°C
  • Harvest:
    Early March to early May
  • Chief viticultural hazard:
    Spring frost

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Discover the Nagambie Lakes with James Halliday's Wine Atlas of Australia

The story of the establishment of viticulture in the Goulburn Valley has all the ingredients for a television epic: high-stakes gambling, initial failure, glory and premature death quickly followed by overnight success. The success was that of a syndicate headed by R. H. Horne and John Pinney Bear, which in 1860 raised 25 000 pounds sterling ($50 000) for the purpose of forming the company to be entitled ‘The Tahbilk Vineyard Proprietary’.

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