‘Intoxicating: Ten drinks that shaped Australia’ - Countdown to launch: sixth chapter
Chapter six of ‘Intoxicating: Ten drinks that shaped Australia’ is ‘Dalwood cabernet’: ‘In the late summer of 1930 in the Hunter Valley north of Sydney, a man named John Davoren made a red wine that changed the course of Australian history ...’ I found this picture in a 1932 newspaper story about Dalwood: it’s John Davoren contemplating a patch of vines that was planted 50 years before the photo was taken – vines that grew the grapes that produced what would become such an historic wine .... #IntoxicatingTenDrinks