Angelo Puglisi is an Australian

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, best known for owning and managing the Ballandean Estate on Queensland's

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with his family.Meet our family
Ballandean Estate Wines. Accessed 30 April 2018.Halliday, James (15 February 2014
Angelo Puglisi is like a rock at the Granite Belt's Ballandean Estate
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. Retrieved 30 April 2018. In 1977, Puglisi was awarded a

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to study overseas growing and management techniques associated with the winemaking industry. Puglisi was awarded the

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in 2001 and was named as a Queensland Great in 2003. He was also named as an Australia Day Ambassador in late 2013.(13 December 2013
Darling Downs identities named Aussie Day Ambassadors
'' The Chronicle'', APN News & Media. Retrieved 30 April 2018.

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