Lindeman's is an Australian wine company, owned by

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. It was founded in 1843 by Dr Henry John Lindeman (died May 1881), who planted its first vines at "Cawarra",

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, on the Upper Paterson River in the

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region of

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. Though the vineyard comprised only , it was well set up, with cellars and other plant for making wine from grapes grown elsewhere in the region. Lindeman also had cellars in

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for ageing the wine. In 1923 the winery brought in Leo Buring as governing director and general manager. He left in 1931. In the mid-1950s it produced wines of excellence that are still sought by wine collectors and wine enthusiasts today. In the 1970s, Lindeman's cask wine was marketed with the slogan 'You make me smile, Dr Lindeman', coined by writer Peter Carey. The original

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no longer exists, and the winery now has vineyards in

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(

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, Coonawarra and Padthaway), and at Karadoc in Victoria, near Red Cliffs. It is considered a mass-producer of reasonably priced, good quality wine. In 1993, its Bin 65

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was Australia's top-selling white-wine export. Five consecutive vintages have been named "best buys" by the ''

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'', a consumer magazine, and Robert M. Parker, Jr. has called it "one of the three or four finest chardonnay values in the world" in his newsletter ''

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''.Frank J. Prial, (24 February 1993
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'' In 2005, the brand and assets, which had been previously owned by Foster's and Southcorp, were acquired by

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