Yering is a town in

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, 38 km north-east from Melbourne's

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, located within the

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. Yering recorded a population of 138 at the . Yering was home to one of Victoria's first wineries.

History

In 1837, brothers

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, Donald and James Ryrie, accompanied by four convict stockmen, set out from the Monaro region of

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driving 250 head of stock, settling in the

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at Yering, which was the

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name for the local area."Yering" derives from either "Yerrang", meaning "scrubby", or "Yerring", meaning "beard". They also brought wines with them, and when visitors came to the property, they were treated to wine labelled by Donald Ryrie (his brothers having meanwhile returned to New South Wales) as "Chateau Yering" with ironic overstatement. By the 1850s, the property had been acquired by two immigrant families from

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—the de Castella and de Pury families, who founded two other wineries on the property, Yeringberg and St Hubert's. All three won Victorian and international awards, including "Best Victorian Vineyard" in 1861 and, in 1889, at the Paris Exhibition, Yering was awarded the only "Grand Prix" to a winery outside the Northern Hemisphere. Post Offices opened as St Huberts on 1 January 1874 (renamed Yeringberg in 1890 and closing in 1942), Yering on 1 December 1884 (closing 1893), and Yering R. S. (for ''Railway Station'') on 10 April 1890 (renamed Yering about 1915). The

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arrived in 1888. The 1890s Depression saw table wines decline in popularity and the land, for cattle-grazing and dairying purposes, become more valuable than the vines.

Paul de Castella Paul Frederic de Castella (22 May 1827 – 14 March 1903) was a Swiss-Australian grazier and winemaker, the pioneer of viticulture in Victoria. Early life De Castella was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, second-eldest son of Dr. Jean Franç ...

sold Chateau Yering in 1896. The area became the centre of a modern revival of

winemaking in the 1960s, with the original wineries coming back into production and many others established.

Present day

The original 1854 mansion on Melba Highway built by Paul de Castella in 1854 from local hand-made bricks and marble and cedar brought overland from New South Wales, is open today with some alterations as the Chateau Yering Historic House/Hotel. Today the original dining room is a restaurant. Yarra Valley Dairy, with 500 cattle and a range of cheeses, is located just off Melba Highway. St Hubert's, Domaine Chandon and Yeringberg are located to the east in neighbouring

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. Lilydale Airport is located on McIntyre Lane. Also in Yering is Yering Range Vineyard and Windsor Park Equine Centre, a 247

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purpose-built horse

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property. The Yering Gorge has some unique flora and is home to many native fauna species.

Schools

* Yering Primary School

References

External links

Steeped in history
''The Age'' (Travel section), 16 September 2006
Chateau Yering
includes history
Yarra Valley Dairy
the commercial website for Yarra Valley Dairy {{Authority control Towns in Victoria (Australia) Yarra Valley Yarra Ranges

History

Present day

Schools

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