Yalumba is an Australian winery located near the town of

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in the Barossa Valley wine region. It was founded by a British brewer, Samuel Smith, who emigrated to Australia with his family from

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in August 1847 aboard the ship ''China''. Upon arriving in Adelaide in December, Smith built a small house on the banks of the

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. He lived there less than a year before moving north to Angaston where he purchased a block of land on the settlement's south eastern boundary. He named his property "Yalumba" after an

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word for "all the land around". In 1849 Smith and his son Sidney planted Yalumba's first vineyards, beginning the Yalumba dynasty. Today Yalumba is Australia's oldest family-owned winery.

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Yalumba is part of Australian wine alliance

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, a multimillion-dollar venture to help resurrect the fortunes of the $6 billion industry while highlighting the quality and diversity of Australian wine.Simon Evans, ''The Australian Financial Review'', Tuesday 18 August 2009, Page 61 The alliance includes Brown Brothers, Campbells, Taylors, DeBortoli, McWilliam’s,

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, Tyrell’s, Yalumba,

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, Howard Park, Jim Barry and

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. The main criteria are 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"; have the ability to do at least a 20-year vertical tasting; have a history going back a minimum of two generations; have ownership of vineyards more than 50 years old and/or ownership of distinguished sites which exemplify the best of ''

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''; and be paid-up members of the Winemakers Federation of Australia.

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External links

Yalumba official website

Australia's first families of Wine
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