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Australia / Barossa: The Barossa is founded by a wealthy, philanthropic English shipping merchant, George Fife Angas, soon after South Australia is settled in 1836. The free colony’s first Surveyor General, Colonel William Light names the fertile valley after the Barrosa Ridge in the Spanish region of Andalusia where he fought a famous battle in the Peninsula Wars of 1811. However there is an error in the registration process and a new Australian name is born, Barossa. Back in London Angas welcomes a proposition by a dissenting Lutheran leader, Pastor August Kavel, who wants to re-settle his flock of Silesian peasant farmers and tradesmen to the New World and they arrive in 1842 in Bethany. The Silesian settlers find fruit growing -– especially grapes -– ideally suited to the Mediterranean climate and by the 1890s dozens of wineries have been established including: Oscar Seppelt’s Seppeltsfield, Johann Gramp’s Orlando, Samuel Smith’s Yalumba, William Salter’s Saltram and Johann Henschke’s Henschke Wines. These ports, sherries, muscats and tokays become popular overseas due to the Mother Country’s policy of Imperial Preference and by 1929, 25% of Australia’s total wine production comes from the Barossa. However, the Great Depression and World War II slash demand for wine and wineries and growers struggle to sell their

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The best wines of the 1840 vintage

Name Tb Producer Location
1 Boal Madeira 95 Madeira Madeira, Portugal
2 Madeira Terrantez 94 Madeira Terrantez Portugal, Portugal
3 Kings Vintage Port 93 Nicolas Harento Douro, Portugal
4 Château Gruaud-Larose 89 Château Gruaud-Larose Bordeaux, France
5 Essencia 86 Royal Tokaji Wine Company Tokay, Hungary
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