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A bottle of Jacob's Creek Chardonnay Pinot Noir. Jacob's Creek is an Australian wine brand that is exported to over 60 countries. [citation needed] It is produced by Pernod Ricard in the small township of Rowland Flat in the Barossa Valley. In 1847, Johann Gramp, the founder of Orlando Wines, planted some of the first grape vines in the Barossa ...
The creek lent its name to the famous wine brand Jacob's Creek, which is produced by Orlando Wines, located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southwest along the Barossa Valley Highway in the small town of Rowland Flat. Johann Gramp, the founder of Orlando Wines, first planted grape vines on the banks of Jacob's Creek in 1847.
In 1989 Pernod Ricard purchased Orlando Wines and its Jacob's Creek label. A year later the Hunter Valley winery Wyndham Estate was purchased and the two merged to form the Orlando Wyndham Group the same year.
Jacobs Creek, Jacob's Creek or Jacob Creek may refer to: Places. In Australia. Jacobs Creek (Australia), a tributary of the North Para River;
The Langhorne Creek wine region is located southeast of Adelaide along the Bremer River. Orlando Wines sources many of the grapes for its Jacob's Creek brand from this area which has also developed a reputation of its dessert wines. [1] The McLaren Vale wine region is located south of Adelaide and extends to the south of Morphett Vale.
Johann Gramp was born on 28 August 1819 in Aichig (Kulmbach) near Kulmbach in Bavaria, [1] [2] [3] where his father was a landowner. [2] In 1837, he left Hamburg to migrate to Australia. [1]
In December 1837 an expedition led Colonel William Light and was surveyed in 1839 by his assistant surveyor, William Jacob (1814–1902), as part of a wider survey of the Barossa region. Light chose the name in memory of the British victory over the French in the Battle of Barrosa , in which he fought in 1811.
In 1995, Bronco Wine Company purchased the brand name Charles Shaw from a bankrupt company for US$27,000 and used it for a line of very inexpensive wines, introduced in 2002 and priced at $1.99 per bottle. The wines became nicknamed "Two-Buck Chuck" and were sold exclusively through Trader Joe's stores. [5]