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Yalumba The Caley 2014: An Aussie Classic
It seems all too ironic that as the world goes into an unprecedented lockdown to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, we look at a wine, the Yalumba The Caley Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz 2014 (AUD$365), which celebrates one of the most peripatetic members of the wine industry.
A man who left home and family to venture forth and seek adventure almost 130 years ago. We are speaking of Yalumba’s globetrotting Indiana Jones of a horticulturist, Fred Caley Smith (which does lead one to wonder why the wine was not dubbed “The Fred Smith” rather than “The Caley”).
Robert Hill-Smith is the current head of Yalumba, Australia’s oldest family wine business. Fred Caley Smith was his great uncle (Fred was the grandson of Samuel Smith, who founded the company in 1849, when he planted the first vines in Angaston in South Australia’s Barossa Valley).
https://quillandpad.com/2020/03/31/yalu ... sa-valley/
A man who left home and family to venture forth and seek adventure almost 130 years ago. We are speaking of Yalumba’s globetrotting Indiana Jones of a horticulturist, Fred Caley Smith (which does lead one to wonder why the wine was not dubbed “The Fred Smith” rather than “The Caley”).
Robert Hill-Smith is the current head of Yalumba, Australia’s oldest family wine business. Fred Caley Smith was his great uncle (Fred was the grandson of Samuel Smith, who founded the company in 1849, when he planted the first vines in Angaston in South Australia’s Barossa Valley).
https://quillandpad.com/2020/03/31/yalu ... sa-valley/
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