NA ="Bagdad, Granton, New Norfolk, Malbina, Bridgewater, Glenorchy";
FE1[0]=" The rich and fertile Derwent Valley is today home to a diverse range of agriculture, hops, wine grapes, apples, pears, flowers, apricots, potatoes and poppies are grown. The area is also known for its timber, trout fishing, dairy ";
FE2[0]="products and its wines. Hobart represents the birth-place and rebirth-place of wines in Tasmania. The first Tasmanian vineyard was planted by Bartholemew Broughton at New Town, a Hobart suburb, in 1821. Its wines won Tasmania's fi";
FE3[0]="rst international award at the Paris Exhibition in 1848 when this vineyard was producing 1600 gallons (7200 litres) annually. However, the wine business dissolved with the death of the key players and the rebirth took 80 years. It";
FE4[0]="alian textile maker Claudio Alcorso planted a vineyard on the banks of the Derwent River just north of Hobart (now Moorilla wines) in 1958. At this time the official view of the Department of Agriculture was that commercial viticu";
FE5[0]="lture was not feasible in Tasmania. The more than 20 vineyards in the Derwent Valley show how wrong they were. Vineyards have been planted on the shores of the Derwent Estuary, near Kinston, Granton and within Hobart itself. Addit";
FE6[0]="ional wineries have been established upstream of the historic town of New Norfolk near Glenora, Bushy Park and Plenty townships. The Central Derwent sub-region includes the vineyards and wineries in the Granton area between Glenor";
FE7[0]="chy and New Norfolk, and near Bagdad. The largest and best known winery in the area are Moorilla Estate where vines were planted in 1958 and Stefano Lubiana Wines considered by many to be Tasmania's benchmark producer of top quali";
FE8[0]="ty sparkling and still wines. Owned and operated by Steve (Stefano) and Monique Lubiana, their vineyard and winery is situated on the Western bank of the Derwent River in Granton. Steve's family wine making history stretches back ";
FE9[0]="over 200 years, his attention to detail and pursuit for excellence has made his wines famous. Winstead Vineyard at Bagdad like many family run Tasmanian vineyards was originally conceived as a hobby.";
LA1[0]=" The terrain is infinitely varied. The maritime influence and hence aspect and exposure to the sea or water is second in importance only to the sunshine hours provided in the long Autumn. This is not true in all subregions, upper D";
LA2[0]="erwent Valley are subject to minimal maritime effects. The vistas are frequently breathtakingly beautiful. These vary substantially, those on the Lower and Upper Derwent being shallow sandstone based soils with some schist, which ";
LA3[0]="reinforces the necessity for irrigation. The soils in the Derwent, are generally weakly structured, sandy, and low in humus (though with less schist), but there are patches of dark black peaty alluvial soils on which vines are bei";
LA4[0]="ng established. The soils in the Coal, Derwent and Huon River Valleys and the D'Entrecastreaux areas are similar but very diverse. Wineries in the Derwent valley are established on Brown Sodosol on Triassic sandstone - sandy loams";
LA5[0]=" over prismatic structured clays on sandstone rocks on Rolling slopes at Meadowbank. Other soils Brown Dermosols and Podosols are found on sand dunes and sand sheets bordering major rivers - Deep sandy profile with good to low nut";
LA6[0]="rient status (Macquarie plains and Meadowbank).";
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CL1[0]=" Hobart lying on latitude 43 degrees South, is no further from the equator than New York or Madrid and has a milder climate than these cities. The Climate is described as Temperate maritime. The daily average maximum temperatures i";
CL2[0]="n Hobart are 12 degrees C in winter and 21.5 in summer. Hobart gets about 630mm (25 inches) of rain a year, making it Australia's second driest capital city. Average wind strength is 11.3 km/hr. Bright sunshine ranges from an aver";
CL3[0]="age of 2500 hours per year in the northern Midlands to less than 1750 hours per year on the west coast and western highlands. Hobart receives an average of 2100 hours annually and Launceston around 2400 hours. The regions around H";
CL4[0]="obart are coldest and the challenge here is to grow grapes out of the wind. On the banks of the Huon River it is especially cold. The maritime influence and hence aspect and exposure to the sea or water is second in importance onl";
CL5[0]="y to the sunshine hours provided in the long autumn. This is not true in all subregions; the Coal River and the upper Derwent Valley are subject to minimal maritime effects. The climate summaries show that rainfall is very evenly ";
CL6[0]="distributed throughout the year. Frosts are infrequent and average maximum and minimum temperatures are lowest in July (10 and 4 degrees C) and highest in January (21 and 12 degrees C). The average hours of sunshine is 8 hours in ";
CL7[0]="January and 4 hours in June. The temperatures are less extreme in the Central and Lower Subregions than in the Upper Derwent. Sunshine hours are also less in the Upper Derwent.";
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HI1[0]=" Hobart represents the birth-place of wines in Tasmania, even though the early ventures did not last. The first grape vines were brought to Australia in 1788 with the First Fleet. Propagation and winemaking developed rapidly with t";
HI2[0]="he establishment of numerous vineyards in the now suburban areas of Sydney. The first Tasmanian vineyard was planted by Bartholemew Broughton at New Town, a Hobart suburb, in 1821. Its wines won Tasmania's first international awar";
HI3[0]="d at the Paris Exhibition in 1848. A vine mother-stock nursery was established in Hobart in 1857 with twenty-nine varieties including Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and other temperate climate varieties. Cuttings from many of Tasm";
HI4[0]="ania's early vineyards went to help establish the first vineyards in Victoria and the Barossa Valley. By 1848 Broughton's vineyard was producing 1600 gallons (7200 litres) annually and plans were in hand for extension of plantings";
HI5[0]=". Also around this time vineyards were planted on the Tamar River, on the east coast and just south of Launceston. However, the wine business dissolved with the death of the key players and possibly because the wines drunk at this";
HI6[0]=" time were predominantly fortified ports and sherries and Tasmanian grapes would have lacked the high sugar and low acid levels required to make this sort of wine successfully. Production on the mainland shifted into the warmer ar";
HI7[0]="eas about this time, partly because of the demand for fortifieds. The rebirth came some 80 years later in the late 1950s: first a French engineer named jean Miguet planted a 1-hectare vineyard near the Tamar River in 1956, followe";
HI8[0]="d by Italian textile maker Claudio Alcorso who planted a vineyard on the banks of the Derwent River just north of Hobart (now Moorilla wines) in 1958. Laurel Bank Wines was establsihed in 1986; Winstead in 1989;  Granton Vineyard ";
HI9[0]="& Stefano Lubiana in 1990 and Casa Fontana in 1998.";