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Tahbilk is an Australian winery located north of Melbourne near the township of Nagambie in the Nagambie Lakes region of central Victoria. It was Established in 1860,〔(Victoria Winery Tours )〕 and claims to be the oldest family-owned winery in Victoria. The winery is part of Australia's First Families of Wine, a prominent Australian wine alliance.〔Simon Evans, The Australian Financial Review, Tuesday 18 August 2009, Page 61〕〔Chris Snow, Decanter Magazine, 17 August 2009, Top Australian wineries team up to push super-premium wines〕 == History == In 1856, Hugh Glass became the owner of the Goulburn River property that included the future Tahbilk. Rushworth storekeeper Ludovic Marie convinced Glass the land was suitable for viticulture and took over of the property for a proposed vineyard and winery.〔 Marie engaged his friend Richard Henry Horne, who had invested in blocks of land at nearby Murchison on the Goulburn River. Horne was eager to "promote any venture which might bring prosperity to the district" and agreed to participate in the winery plan.〔 The two set up a public company, the Goulburn Vineyard Proprietary, with Marie as manager and Horne as honorary secretary.〔 In 1859, the company advertised for capital of £30,000 in £5 shares. Its provisional committee comprised Horne, J.G. Dougharty of Melbourne and N.R.D. Bond and A. Sinclair of Murchison.〔 The advertisement said:
In August 1860, the company was called Tahbilk Vineyard Proprietary, with Ludovic Marie as Principal Vigneron and Charles Ebden and James Blackwood as trustees. The provisional directory, in addition to Horne and Bond, comprised Richard Eades, John Pinney Bear, David Wilkie, George Holmes, Hugh Glass, Samuel Rentech, G.S. Evans, J.W. Mackenna, J.H. Brooke and Donald Kennedy. They included three Members of the Legislative Assembly, two Members of the Legislative Council, two Justices of the Peace, the Swiss Consul, the Argentinian Consul-General and the Mayor of Melbourne.〔 Marie addressed a dinner of vineyard workers in 1861; he said, "the money for all these extensive operations which were being carried on was found almost solely by three gentlemen... Messrs. Bear, Glass and Holmes". In May 1860, one the company's founders, Sinclair, was found dead in Brighton from an overdose of morphine administered by persons unknown, with "a list of shareholders in the Goulburn Vineyard Company ... found sewn up in the pocket" of his coat.〔 One of the last men to see Sinclair alive was Ludovic Marie, who was declared insolvent in August 1861. The venture did not compensate Horne for the money he had lost in the early public float, and he returned to England but later said he was "the father of the Australian wine industry".〔 When Marie left the company, John Pinney Bear assumed control and progressively bought out the other shareholders; by 1876 he was sole owner.〔 By that year, Tahblik's annual vintage output was around and was winning national and international awards.〔 Bear employed François De Coueslant as manager in 1887, who is credited with planting the estates' mulberry trees and building the winery tower. A year later ''The Argus'' reported that Tahbilk had received a wine order from Queen Victoria. In 1889 Bear, a former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council, died at Tahbilk. De Coueslant left the company same year, and Chateau Tahbilk as it was known went into decline, with the vineyard shrinking to by 1925.〔 It was purchased by the Purbrick family in 1931 and remains in their ownership.〔 Until 2000, the winery was known as Chateau Tahbilk. The original cellars built in the 1860s and 1870s are still in use. These and the vineyard's buildings are classified by the National Trust of Australia.〔(National Trust of Australia )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tahbilk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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