Swan Valley
Sunbaked river-bend valley of vineyards and orchards, Australia's second-oldest wine region.
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This guide to Swan Valley near Perth follows one winemaker's streak of invention at the Houghton estate, starting with a butcher's mincing machine pressed into wine service in the early nineteen thirties. It traces how an imported piece of filtration gear, the first of its kind in the country, changed what could safely be bottled in one of the world's hottest wine regions. You will hear how the resulting wine came to dominate Australian sales for decades, and why its name later changed.
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