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The Wine Hunter: The Life Story of Australia's First Great Winemaker

By (author) Campbell Mattinson





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Australia's first great winemaker was a Frenchman. As a 24 year old, in 1921, he walked onto a hillside vineyard in the Hunter Valley north-west of Sydney and in a hard, hot climate set about growing and crafting wines that, when finally opened as fifty- and sixty-year-olds, became renowned as Australia's first great wines. He made these wines without electricity, with bare bones equipment - his winery, Mount Pleasant never once turned a profit during his 30 year struggle - and with a broken heart. What he achieved out there on that hillside is one of the miracles of wine. The Wine Hunter is Maurice O'Shea's remarkable story. James Halliday described this book as ""One of the most remarkable wine books to come my way. It will capture anyone who reads it; this is not a wine geek book, but an epic."" This is a book for wine lovers young and old.

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Publisher | Hardie Grant Books
Published date | 1 Dec 2015
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 336
Dimensions | 170 x 170 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-7437-9127-1
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / business


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