The Sunbury wine region is an
Australian Geographical Indication
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for wine made from grapes grown in a region surrounding the town of
Sunbury northwest of
Melbourne
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in the Australian state of
Victoria
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. It is one of five regions in the
Port Philip zone surrounding Melbourne. The wine region covers suburbs and inner rural areas in the northwestern sector of the Melbourne urban area, extending as far west as
Bacchus Marsh
Bacchus Marsh ( Wathawurrung: ''Pullerbopulloke'') is a town in Victoria, Australia, located approximately north-west of the state capital Melbourne, at a near equidistance to the major cities of Melbourne, Ballarat and Geelong.
As of the ...
and northeast to
Beveridge on the
Hume Highway
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.
The oldest vines date back to the 1850s. They were planted by
James Goodall Francis in 1858 at ''Goona Warra'' and
James Johnston at ''Craiglee'' in 1864.
Top grape varieties grown in the Sunbury region include
Shiraz
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,
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Franc is one of the major black grape varieties worldwide. It is principally grown for blending with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot in the Bordeaux (wine), Bordeaux style, but can also be vinified alone, as in the Loire (wine), Loire's C ...
and
Chardonnay
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.
References
{{Wine regions of Victoria
Wine regions of Victoria (state)
Sunbury, Victoria