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Winemaker

Occupation - Winemaker
Buring, Hermann Paul Leopold
Gerhard, Georg
Himmelhoch, Isaac
Justus, Apollonia
Macarthur, William
Morley, James
Muller, Agnes
Sickold, Friederick
Stein, Jakob
Stein, Johann

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Winemaker

Buring, Hermann Paul Leopold

Winemaker and viticulturist who established Leo Buring Pty Ltd, a winery at Emu Plains called Leonay and a wine cellar on George Street called Ye Olde Crusty Cellar. In 2018, the Leo Buring label was owned by Treasury Wine Estates.

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Gerhard, Georg

German vinedresser who arrived from Hattenheim in Germany as a bounty immigrant to tend the Macarthur vines bringing with him his wife and five children.

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Himmelhoch, Isaac

Polish born financier and vigneron who took up winemaking in Eckersley at the end of the nineteenth century. His vineyard Grodno, became the site of the Holdsworthy Internment camp in World War I.

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Justus, Apollonia

German born wife of Johann Justus who followed her husband across the world to help establish a wine industry at Camden.

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Macarthur, William

Grazier and horticulturalist who helped establish the Australian wine industry, and with his brother James, expanded the Macarthur holdings across the state.

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Morley, James

Emancipist transported for theft who became a partner in a shipping fiim which supplied settlers on the Hawkesbury within 13 years of his arrival. He also held several land grants, a wine licence and owned a timber yard, rasing a large family who contributed to the growth of the colony.

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Muller, Agnes

German infant who accompanied her parents to the colony and grew to make her own contribution to the wine industry.

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Sickold, Friederick

Vinedresser who emigrated with his wife and five children to work with the Macarthurs in establishing a wine industry.

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Stein, Jakob

Vinedresser who followed his brother from Erbach in Germany as the wine industry flourished in the colony.

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Stein, Johann

Vinedresser who bought Reisling vines to the colony when he emigrated from Erbach in Germany in 1838.

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