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Yalumba
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When my forebears landed in Australia 154 years ago from Dorset in England, I assume there was little in their favour bar optimism. My great great Grandfather Samuel Smith was a law abiding and God fearing man who plied his art as a Master Brewer in the small village of Wareham, where 5 breweries and 10 pubs were in enthusiastic operation!
History shows that coincidence and planning resulted in him befriending the local pastoralist George Fife Angas who employed him as a gardener and later leased him the site on which now stands the magnificent Yalumba Winery. Another unusual twist of the time shows an Englishman named this site after an aboriginal word “Yalumba”, meaning “All the land around”.
In 150 plus years of continuous family ownership, Yalumba has consistently stood as a leader in the industry. Experimentation, innovation and hard work have been the sustained elements of this continuum. Loyalty from growers and workers has also stood the company in good stead in trying times, particularly in the Depression of the 1930’s and extremely difficult times in the 1980’s.
Today as an owner of vineyards in three specific viticultural regions, Yalumba continues its quest for innovation and excellence. It retains the only privately run winery cooperage in the southern hemisphere and exercises controls over purchasing of oak and its seasoning before their two master coopers and three apprentices take on their annual challenge of producing exceptional barriques and puncheons for the new vintage wines. Yalumba likes to control the “ controllables”.
When my forebears landed in Australia 154 years ago from Dorset in England, I assume there was little in their favour bar optimism. My great great Grandfather Samuel Smith was a law abiding and God fearing man who plied his art as a Master Brewer in the small village of Wareham, where 5 breweries and 10 pubs were in enthusiastic operation!
History shows that coincidence and planning resulted in him befriending the local pastoralist George Fife Angas who employed him as a gardener and later leased him the site on which now stands the magnificent Yalumba Winery. Another unusual twist of the time shows an Englishman named this site after an aboriginal word “Yalumba”, meaning “All the land around”.
In 150 plus years of continuous family ownership, Yalumba has consistently stood as a leader in the industry. Experimentation, innovation and hard work have been the sustained elements of this continuum. Loyalty from growers and workers has also stood the company in good stead in trying times, particularly in the Depression of the 1930’s and extremely difficult times in the 1980’s.
Today as an owner of vineyards in three specific viticultural regions, Yalumba continues its quest for innovation and excellence. It retains the only privately run winery cooperage in the southern hemisphere and exercises controls over purchasing of oak and its seasoning before their two master coopers and three apprentices take on their annual challenge of producing exceptional barriques and puncheons for the new vintage wines. Yalumba likes to control the “ controllables”.