Revised and Corrected Version, March – June 2025
The introduction and first section of this major research paper has been revised and corrected as of March – June 2025. This paper supersedes the previous version therefore.
Category: Research
Hunter Semillon Was Derived From a Single Vine: The Mono-Clonal, and Almost Certainly South African, Origin of a Classic Australian-Regional Wine Grape
If the facts adduced here are correct, proper acknowledgement of the colonial Sydney ‘ground zero’ source of Hunter Semillon ought to be made.
‘Hermitage’ in New Zealand: the Origins and Development of the Te Kauwhata ‘Hermitage’ Syrah
‘Hermitage’ in New Zealand: the Origins and Development of the Te Kauwhata ‘Hermitage’ Syrah Line
In-brief research paper originally published in the Stonecroft newsletter, 2016
Revised and extended in August 2020 for publication in the GRAD® website.
Copyright (©) Gerald Atkinson, 2020
The author may be contacted by e-mail at: grapevines@hotmail.co.nz… Read more
‘White Shiraz’ in New South Wales: The History and Mystery of the Hunter Valley’s Trebbiano Plantings, Their Source, and Their Misidentification
This research paper addresses the remarkable apparent discovery revealed by Julie McIntyre and John Germov in their recently published book Hunter Wine: A History[i], viz.: that a vine named 'Shiraz' was in New South Wales by 1823 and that it was the source of the first plantings of Syrah (Shiraz / Hermitage / Red Hermitage) in the Hunter Valley.
The Origins, History, and Confusion of Pinot Noir Clone A.M. 10/5 and Certain Pinot Droit and Other Pinot Noir Clones in New Zealand
Gerald Atkinson's definitive account of the longstanding confusion in New Zealand between the Pinot noir clone A.M. 10/5 and the U.C. Davis upright-growing, Pinot droit, Pinot noir clone FVI60v15.