Summary

Booklet - 'Above and Below Ground at Hans Irvine's Great Western Vineyard', about 1903. 20 pages, illustrated with photographs and text documenting the processes of wine making, descriptions of the Great Western district and vineyard, details of the wine and W.H.W. Irvine.

Booklet is published by Irvine & Co., Melbourne Cellars, Robb's Buildings, 527 Collins St. Melbourne, about 1903.

"The Irvine Wine Collection was acquired by Museum Victoria in 1989. It represents the history of the Great Western Vineyard and the achievements of Hans William Henry Irvine, vigneron and politician, from 1888 until 1922. It comprises 130 items ranging from publications, marketing items, packaging materials, wine labels, award medals, ceramics, illuminated address, commemorative trowel, trophy plaques, wine makers tools, and silverware."

Physical Description

20 page printed booklet. Booklet has white paper pages with brown printed text and sepia coloured photographs showing images of the wine making process from inspecting, sterilising and bottling of wine etc. Front cove r of booklet is white with brown printed text and a drawing of a man picking grapes from a vine. Booklet has been stapled at the spine.

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