First Vintage : Wine in Colonial New South Wales

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Copyright -- Contemporary wine regions of New South Wales -- Timeline of first plantings of wine grapes in districts across New South Wales -- Introduction -- 1. Ideas of wine on the First Fleet -- 2. British names for wine and why they mattered -- 3. Grape vines on the First Fleet -- 4. First vineyards, first vintages -- 5. Intelligent industry -- 6. Colonial wine to create sobriety -- 7. A new generation of wine growers -- 8. Wine, science and industrialisation -- 9. Taste -- 10. The rise of regionality.;Exploring the forgotten history of the early Australian wine industry, this book reveals the challenges of choosing vine stock, the battles to protect against pests and diseases, and the innovation of new technologies that assisted small-scale growers, many of whom worked in wine regions that have since vanished from the landscape and memory for much of the 20th century. Few people know that vine cuttings were brought to Australia on the First Fleet and planted in Governor Arthur Phillip's garden at Circular Quay. Or that botanist and champion o. First Vintage explores the forgotten history of the early Australian wine industry. Few people know that vine cuttings were brought to Australia on the First Fleet and planted in Governor Arthur Phillip's garden at Circular Quay, or that botanist and champion of colonial development Joseph Banks encouraged plans to create a wine industry from the earliest years of the colony. Before the assisted migration of German vinedressers in the 1830s, any convict or free settler with a hint of vine growing or wine making expertise was quickly drafted to the cause. First Vintage reveals the people who dreamed of making Australia a wine-drinking country, including influential colonists Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson, Richard Windeyer, John Macarthur and Thomas Mitchell, who all had vineyards. It shows the challenges of choosing vine stock, the battles to protect against pests and diseases, and the innovation of new technologies which assisted small scale growers, many in wine regions which vanished from the landscape and memory for much of the twentieth century. Exploring the forgotten history of the early Australian wine industry, this book reveals the challenges of choosing vine stock, the battles to protect against pests and diseases, and the innovation of new technologies that assisted small-scale growers, many of whom worked in wine regions that have since vanished from the landscape and memory for much of the 20th century. Few people know that vine cuttings were brought to Australia on the First Fleet and planted in Governor Arthur Phillip's garden at Circular Quay. Or that botanist and champion of colonial development Joseph Banks encouraged plans to create a wine industry from the earliest years of the colony. In addition, before the assisted migration of German vinedressers in the 1830s, any convict or free settler with a hint of vine-growing or wine-making expertise was quickly drafted to the cause. This colorful history is the first to trace wine growing, making, and drinking in colonial New South Wales. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Copyright -- Contemporary wine regions of New South Wales -- Timeline of first plantings of wine grapes in districts across New South Wales -- Introduction -- 1. Ideas of wine on the First Fleet -- 2. British names for wine and why they mattered -- 3. Grape vines on the First Fleet -- 4. First vineyards, first vintages -- 5. Intelligent industry -- 6. Colonial wine to create sobriety -- 7. A new generation of wine growers -- 8. Wine, science and industrialisation -- 9. Taste -- 10. The rise of regionality. 11. A splendid bouquet ... of a similar character -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Some grape variety importations into New South Wales -- APPENDIX 2: A selection of data on vines, winepresses, vignerons and wine regions -- Notes -- Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index.