The new red centre: Aborigines produce their own wine
A small Aboriginal community in central western NSW has produced the first Australian wine made entirely by indigenous people. The group from Murrin Bridge, in central western NSW, plan to bottle 1,300 bottles of shiraz this week. The grapes were first grown when local jobless people found themselves studying a course in viticulture to fulfil TAFE requirements, said Murrin Bridge Vineyard Aboriginal Corporation chairman Craig Cromelin. Four years ago they started out with four acres. They had since increased the vineyard to 100 acres, Mr Cromelin said. Their eventual goal was to become a self-sufficient community with jobs created by the vineyard, he said. He said there had been interest in the wine from all over Australia, and not just because it was the first produced by Aborigines. "We hope that what's inside the bottle is going to be of top class quality," he said. They now hoped to become the official wine of large Australian corporations, he said. AAP http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/03/national/national101.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/ until 11 March, 2001 and Recoznettwo is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznettwo%40green.net.au/ from that date. This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
