Author: HENDERSON, RAYMOND.
Title: From Jolimont To Yering And Along Our Yarra Valleys With Neuchatel's Bachelor Vignerons. Two Centuries of the Yarra Valley Wine Industry.
Description: First Limited Edition; 4to; pp. 428; illustrated title page, numerous coloured and b/w. illustrations, footnotes, references, index, bound in original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and upper board, dustjacket, inscribed and signed by the author on front endpaper, fine copy. Healesville; Raymond F. Henderson; 2006. First Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies this being numbered 606.The Authors story is set in the period of the beginnings of Melbourne when vignerons and vinedressers planted vineyards in the virgin Barwon and Yarra River valleys alongside other pioneers of the time. Although this first wave of winemaking had largely subsided by the early 1900s, a dramatic revival of the industry began to take place in the 1960s, being a part of today's global expansion of wines from these valleys, with vintages held in high regard the world over.

Keywords: Australian Local History Victoria Wine Yarra Valley Wine-making Lilydale Food History