ON COLONIAL WINES. 
283 
Return of Vines Grown and Wine and Brandy Manufactured in 
the Colony of Victoria, for the year ending 31st March, 1872. 
County. 
Anglesey 
Benambra 
Bendigo 
Bogong .. 
Boruck . . 
Bourke . . 
Buln Buln 
Croajingolonj 
Dalhousie 
Dargo . . 
Delatite . . 
Dundas . . 
Evelyn . . 
Follett .. 
Gladstone 
Grant 
Grenville 
Gunbower 
Hampden 
Heytesbury 
Kara Kara 
Karkarook 
Lowan . . 
Millewa . . 
Moira 
Mornington 
Normanby 
Polwarth 
Bipon 
Bodney . . 
Talbot . . 
Tambo . . 
Tangil . . 
Tatchera 
Villiers . . 
Weeah . . 
Wonnangatta 
Total 
Number of 
Vines. 
Grapes Gatiikred. 
Not Made 
into Wine 
10,450 
8,700 
821,095 
1,504,286 
317,933 
1,560,570 
12,330 
59,710 
127,215 
12,435 
777,000 
226,307 
2,423,811 
40,167 
4,000 
1,208 
60,350 
572,650 
73,530 
19,875 
33,000 
57,410 
222,746 
688,376 
2,588 
6,000 
44,550 
3,000 
cwt. 
150 
68 
7,083 
898 
1,787 
9,293 
17 
247 
259 
326 
125 
1,756 
2,464 
202 
413 
312 
243 
239 
460 
319 
205 
4,458 
17 
60 
Made 
into Wine. 
Wine 
Produced. 
9,691,292 
30,896 
106 
9,508 
26,786 
2,813 
9,923 
99 
385 
2,911 
47 
10,741 
3,076 
15,461 
722 
35 
251 
8,872 
673 
90 
650 
547 
2,508 
10,242 
345 
108,791 
galls. 
460 
58,234 
172,198 
17,410 
65,784 
675 
2,206 
19,448 
230 
78,515 
17,271 
108,233 
4,323 
200 
1,829 
66,980 
5,260 
430 
3,000 
3,780 
17,420 
68,383 
1,340 
713,609 
Brandy 
Manu- 
factured. 
galls. 
1,500 
79 
1,579 
According to the above tables the number of acres, 
under vines has been substantially trebled in nine 
years— from 1863 to 1872. Yet this is hardly in 
keeping with the history of most of our new or localised 
