Rutherglen

Fast Facts

  • Latitude:
    36°10’S
  • Altitude:
    170 m
  • Heat degree days:
    1770
  • Growing season rainfall:
    297 mm
  • Mean January temp:
    22.3°C
  • Harvest:
    End February to early May
  • Chief viticultural hazard:
    Spring frost

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This is a part of Australia steeped in history, with character and personality second to none. One of the first vignerons in the north-east was Lindsay Brown, who took up the Gooramadda run in 1839. Gold came later, but Brown was convinced there was greater (and surer) wealth in viticulture. Victoria’s great wine historian and chronicler Hubert de Castella records that Brown ‘was in the habit of settling miners’ discussions as to the depth to which sinking of shafts should be carried. “To get gold”, he would say, “you need sink only about 18 inches and plant vines”.’

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