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

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in August 1847 aboard the ship ''China''. Upon arriving in Adelaide in December, Smith built a small house on the banks of the

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. He lived there less than a year before moving north to Angaston where he purchased a block of land on the settlement's south eastern boundary. He named his property "Yalumba" after an

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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. As at 2022 it was ranked the twelfth largest Australian wine company by production and ninth largest in terms of total revenue.

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Yalumba is part of Australian wine alliance

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, Tyrell’s, Yalumba,

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, Howard Park, Jim Barry and Henschke. The main criteria are that the family-owned companies need to have a "landmark wine" in their portfolios as listed under Langton’s Classification and/or 75% agreement by group that a wine is considered "iconic"; have the ability to do at least a 20-year vertical tasting; have a history going back a minimum of two generations; have ownership of vineyards more than 50 years old and/or ownership of distinguished sites which exemplify the best of ''

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''; and be paid-up members of the Winemakers Federation of Australia.

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External links

Yalumba official website

Australia's first families of Wine
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