| Yalumba | |
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| Location | Angaston,South Australia, Australia |
| Coordinates | 34°30′48″S139°03′19″E / 34.513223°S 139.055414°E /-34.513223; 139.055414 |
| Wine region | Barossa Valley |
| Founded | 1849 |
| Key people | Samuel Smith |
| Cases/yr | 750,000[1] |
| Known for | The Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz and The Octavius Old Vine Barossa Shiraz |
| Varietals | Shiraz,Cabernet Sauvignon,Merlot |
| Website | www.yalumba.com |
Yalumba is an Australian winery located near the town ofAngaston, South Australia in theBarossa Valley wine region. It was founded by a British brewer,Samuel Smith, who emigrated to Australia with his family fromWareham, Dorset in August 1847 aboard the shipChina. Upon arriving in Adelaide in December, Smith built a small house on the banks of theRiver Torrens. He lived there less than a year before moving north toAngaston where he purchased a 30-acre (120,000 m2) block of land on the settlement's south eastern boundary. He named his property "Yalumba" after anindigenous Australian word for "all the land around". In 1849 Smith and his son Sidney planted Yalumba's first vineyards, beginning the Yalumba dynasty. Until the 1960s Yalumba was known for fortified wines.[2] As at 2022 it was ranked the twelfth largest Australian wine company by production[3] and ninth largest in terms of total revenue.[4]
Yalumba is part of Australian wine allianceAustralia's First Families of Wine, a multimillion-dollar venture to help resurrect the fortunes of the $6 billion industry while highlighting the quality and diversity of Australian wine.[5][6] Thetwelve-member alliance includesBrown Brothers, Campbells, Taylors,DeBortoli, McWilliam’s,Tahbilk, Tyrell’s, Yalumba,D'Arenberg,Howard Park, Jim Barry andHenschke. The main criteria are that the family-owned companies need to have a "landmark wine" in their portfolios as listed underLangton’s Classification and/or 75% agreement by group that a wine is considered "iconic"; have the ability to do at least a 20-year vertical tasting; have a history going back a minimum of two generations; have ownership of vineyards more than 50 years old and/or ownership of distinguished sites which exemplify the best ofterroir; and be paid-up members of the Winemakers Federation of Australia.[5][7][8][9]
