CRAIGLEE WINERY

- As an important, intact and rare material remnant of the wine industry in Victoria in the nineteenth century.

- As an important material remnant, (particularly in its scale and design) of the wine industry in southern Victoria as it developed in the 1860s. This was a decade of extraordinary enthusiasm for viticulture and winemaking. Craiglee's history is also expressive of the decline of viticulture in southern Victoria in the nineteenth century.

- As an exemplar (in its overall design and internal and external features) of traditional winemaking processes, particularly in its incorporation of the gravitation principle permitting the relaying of must and wine from floor to floor, and eventual dispatch through the ground floor cellar door.

- As an important agricultural building in the Sunbury district, which was an important settlement established in the nineteenth century.

- For its distinctive association with the 1862 Duffy land act and its famous clause 47- the so-called "Novel Industries" clause - which was intended to promote new agricultural industries of which winemaking was the most popular.

- For its association with James Stewart Johnston (1811-1896), a notable landowner and politician in nineteenth century Victoria.

Group

Farming and Grazing

Category

Vineyard/Winery