More about Yalumba

That last post really got me thinking about Yalumba and I really wanted to know more about the winery. So, here's a little info.:

Here's Frommer's review:
"This winery was built in 1849, making it the oldest family-owned winemaking business in Australia. It's also huge. The winery's Signature red Cabernet-Shiraz is among the best you'll ever taste. Open daily 10am to 5pm."

YUM! I will now make it a mission to try this delicious sounding Cab-Shiraz!!!

From Wikipedia:

"Yalumba is a winery located near Angaston, South Australia in the Barossa Valley. It was founded by a British Brewer, Samuel Smith, who emigrated to Australia with his family from Wareham, Dorset in August 1847 in the ship 'China'. Upon arriving in Australia in December, Smith built a small house on the banks of the River Torrens. He lived there less than a year before moving north to Angaston where he purchased a 30-acre block of land on the settlement's south eastern boundary. He named his property 'Yalumba' after an indigenous Australian word for "all the land around". In 1849, Samuel Smith, along with his son, Sidney, planted Yalumba's first vineyards, beginning the Yalumba dynasty. Today, Yalumba is Australia's oldest family-owned winery."
"Yalumba is part of Australian wine alliance Australia's First Families of Wine, a multi-million dollar venture to help ressurect the fortunes of the $6 billion industry highlighting the quality diversity of Australian wine. The 12 member alliance includes Brown Brothers, Campbells, Taylors, DeBortoli, McWilliams, Tahbilk, Tyrell's, Yalumba, D'Arenberg, Howard Park, Jim Barry and Henschke. The main criteria is that the family-owned companies need to have a "landmark wine" in their portfolios as listed under Langton's Classification and/or 75% agreement by group that a wine is considered "iconic", must have the ability to do at least a 20-year vertical tasting, have a history going back a minimum of two generations, ownership of vineyards more than 50 years old and/or ownership of distinguished sites that exemplify the best of terroir, and be paid-up members of the Winemakers Federation of Australia."
Wikipedia also lists that they produce 750,000 cases/year and that they are most known for The Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz and The Octavius Old Vine Barossa Shiraz.

After looking at Yalumba's website (www.yalumba.com), I discovered the GSM that I had in Texas about 4 years ago! They actually call it the Yalumba m/g/s (so, does that mean that it's majority Mourvedre!?) rather than GSM. All I know is that I want it again! : )

Hmmm... a trip to Australia is sounding better and better! : )