| Yalumba | |
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| Location | Angaston, South Australia, Australia |
| Coordinates | 34°30′48″S 139°03′19″E / 34.513223°S 139.055414°E |
| Wine region | Barossa Valley |
| Founded | 1849 |
| Key people | Samuel Smith |
| Cases/yr | 750,000[1] |
| Known for | The Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz and The Octavius Old Vine Barossa Shiraz |
| Varietals | Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot |
| Website | www.yalumba.com |
Yalumba is an Australian winery located near the town of Angaston, South Australia in the Barossa Valley wine region. It was founded by a British brewer, Samuel Smith, who emigrated to Australia with his family from Wareham, Dorset in August 1847 aboard the ship China. Upon arriving in Adelaide in December, Smith built a small house on the banks of the River Torrens. He lived there less than a year before moving north to Angaston where he purchased a 30-acre (120,000 m2) block of land on the settlement's south eastern boundary. He named his property "Yalumba" after an indigenous Australian word for "all the land around". In 1849 Smith and his son Sidney planted Yalumba's first vineyards, beginning the Yalumba dynasty. Until the 1960s Yalumba was known for fortified wines.[2] Today Yalumba is Australia's oldest family-owned winery. As at 2022 it was ranked the twelfth largest Australian wine company by production[3] and ninth largest in terms of total revenue.[4]
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- ^ Dunstan, David (15 September 1981). "Family winery throws out a challenge to the big names". The Age. p. 29. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
- ^ "Australia's largest wine companies by total wine production". winetitles.com. winetitles media. 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ "Australia's largest wine companies by total revenue". winetitles.com. winetitles media. 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2024.