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Now Viewing: Petaluma (Australia)
In 1976 Brian Croser, an Australian farmer's son, and graduate of agricultural science (University of Adelaide) and oenology (University of California at Davis), made his first vintage using top quality grapes purchased from local growers. The wines, which included small batches of wine made from Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Chardonnay, garnered numerous medals, and by 1978 Croser moved to purchase land at Piccadilly, in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Here he planted Chardonnay, and from this fledgling operation sprang Petaluma, now one of Australia's most famous wineries. More than twenty years on the Adelaide Hills is the focus of investment by many Australian winemakers, Penfolds included, who have seen the potential for producing top-class Chardonnay in its humid and relatively cool climate.
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