NA ="Kilcoy, Neurum, Woodford, D'Aguilar, Delaneys Creek, Stanmore, Cedarton, Villeneuve,";
FE1[0]=" Covering the areas of Kilcoy, Woodford and through to Caboolture, vineyards have been founded in the D'Aguilar Region for approximately four years. Showing promising results, local winemakers have been eager to open wineries to di";
FE2[0]="splay the different styles of wines they can produce. Winemaking could become a major tourist drawcard generating hundreds of jobs around Kilcoy. Acting president of the newly formed Somerset Valley's Grape and Wine Producers' Ass";
FE3[0]="ociation, Dr. Tom Doolan is excited by the potential for growing quality grapes grapes and attracting tourists. Dr Doolan said Kilcoy's proximity to Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast put it within easy reach of a large number of pot";
FE4[0]="ential day trippers. Nine grape growers already are operating with another expected to begin operating in August. Of those, two or three planned to build wineries in the next few years, Dr. Doolan said. Production was expected to ";
FE5[0]="grow from eight tonnes last year to 500 tonnes by 2005. Dr. Doolan and his wife Julie plan to establish a winery on their Sandy Creek Rd. property, Nirvana Estate, in the next 2-3 years.  They will expand their plantings from 3.25";
FE6[0]="ha to 12.1ha within five years.  Initially they are growing Chardonnay, Semillon, Cabernet, Shiraz, Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc grapes. Dr. Doolan said the climate was warmer than in many of Australia's wine producing regions.  The";
FE7[0]=" vines were growing significantly faster and the grapes had a much higher sugar content than normal. He said Nirvana Estate had terrific soil, with several feet of forest loam on clay shale base. Seventy-five kilometres north-west";
FE8[0]=" of Caboolture on the D'Aguilar Highway, Kilcoy lies just north of Lake Somerset at the base of the Conondale Range. Woodford is a small but very pretty town, 20 minutes west of Caboolture on the D'Aguilar Highway.The nearby Delan";
FE9[0]="ey's Creek winery just off the Mt Mee Road is the closest winery to Brisbane and is the first of a number of new wineries opening up in the region.";
LA1[0]=" The South East Queensland landscape is a diverse mosaic of mountain ranges, hills, valleys, rivers, lakes, floodplains, coastal embayments and islands. The Region possesses hilly, steep hilly and mountainous terrain with some elev";
LA2[0]="ated plateaus associated with the upper reaches of the Brisbane River and its tributaries. The Coastal lowlands to the east are dominated by alluvial plains which are associated with the valley floors of the Mary, Stanley, Brisban";
LA3[0]="e, Bremer, Albert and Logan Rivers and their major tributaries.Coastal lowlands are dominated by the low lying coastal sand plains fronting onto Moreton Bay and the Pacific Ocean. They comprise the lower reaches of the Maroochy, M";
LA4[0]="ooloolah, Caboolture, Pine, Logan, Albert, Coomera and Nerang and the minor coastal streams such as Tallebudgera and Currumbin Creeks. Major offshore islands are dominated by Quaternary sands with low hilly to hilly terrain. They ";
LA5[0]="include significant areas of coastal swamp and undulating dune formations. The southern highlands form the headwaters of the Lockyer, Bremer Rivers and the southern coastal streams. There are more than a dozen major catchments in ";
LA6[0]="South East Queensland, as well as a myriad of sub-catchments. The largest of these is the Brisbane River Catchment, which covers some 13,000 km2 . more than half the total area of the South East region. Its six main sub-catchments";
LA7[0]=" are the Upper Brisbane, Stanley, Mid-Brisbane, Lockyer, Bremer and Lower Brisbane catchments. The remainder of the Region includes the smaller catchments of Noosa, Maroochy and Mooloolah; the numerous waterways of the Pumicestone";
LA8[0]=" region (including Caboolture River and Burpengary Creek). The general soil profile within the study area is likely to consist of residual soils overlying sedimentary rock, with minor areas of alluvial soils, colluvium and isolate";
LA9[0]="d igneous rock intrusions.";
CL1[0]=" Just 700 kilometres south of the Tropic of Capricorn, Caboolture has a hot, humid climate which dictates the lifestyles of its residents. While the summer maximum average temperate is only 30 degrees C, the summer months have some";
CL2[0]=" extremely hot days. The winter is mild and very pleasant. Most winter days are sunny with average temperatures of around 15 degrees C.     ";
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HI1[0]=" Kilcoy Shire has a proud history founded on the original selection of a 35,000 acre pastoral lease by the Scottish gentlemen, Evan and Colin McKenzie, in 1841. The run was named in the manner of their family estates in the Scottis";
HI2[0]="h highlands where their father was Baronet of Kilcoy. The area was opened up in 1841 by Scottish migrants who cleared land on the upper reaches of the Sandy and Kilcoy creeks to run beef and dairy cattle. A thriving community grew";
HI3[0]=" as a settlement of families and workers established their selections of land along the upper reaches of Kilcoy Creek (Mount Kilcoy) and Sandy Creek, raising dairy herds and a primary beef industry that still serves the community ";
HI4[0]="today. Woongooroo Estate is a family-owned boutique Vineyard / Cellardoor situated in the rich and diverse farming. Plantings commenced in 1997 and three successful vintages have been completed thus far. Archer Falls Winery and Vi";
HI5[0]="neyard at Villeneuve via Woodford was established in 2000. Delaney's Creek Winery & Vineyard, established in 1997, lies in an elevated position in the heart of Caboolture Shire. This region, 160 m above sea level, was once a well-";
HI6[0]=" known wine region. Our winery picks up the history and combines it with modern skills to produce wines of high quality. The Hunting Lodge Estate is a bed and breakfast and winery and vineyard cafe set in the mountains of Kilcoy, ";
HI7[0]="established in 1999. Nirvana Estate Vineyard was established: 1998. 'Winya Wines' is nestled in the picturesque valley of Sandy Creek was started in 1997 with their first vintage in 2001. Woongooroo Estate was established by prima";
HI8[0]="ry school teachers Phil and Gail Close when they planted a little over three hectares of chardonnay, semillon, shiraz, cabernet franc, merlot and verdelho, together with a commercial olive grove. They chose the Costanzo brothers o";
HI9[0]="f Golden Grove Estate in the Granite Belt as their contract winemakers, with a cellar door/vineyard cafe scheduled to open late 2003 or early 2004.";