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1788

Year that the first grapevines were planted in Australia, specifically near Sydney Cove in New South Wales. The vines arrived as part of the extensive provisions on board the First Fleet—11 ships that left Portsmouth, England, in 1787 to found a penal colony, the first European settlement in Australia.

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