I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, The first veneferovines were brought to Australia from South Africa in 1788.

They came with the first fleet, a group of 11 British ships

that sailed for about 250 days

to establish a penal colony in Australia.

Before sailing across the Indian Ocean, the fleet stopped at Cape Town to gather provisions

and they stocked up on pigs, cattle, seeds, and of course grape vines.

They got their cuttings from the Dutch,

who to the First Fleet members had been successful with wine

in South Africa already for more than a century.

By 1822, one of the early settlers, Gregory Blacksland, had some success with wine production,

and he sent some fortified wine to England.

Australia's modern wine industry finds its roots a bit later in the mid 1800s

when James Busby brought Spanish and French cuttings to Australia in 1832.

Shortly thereafter a wave of newcomers arrived from Salizia, a country that no longer

exists but its borders were similar to modern day Poland.

In the mid 1800s, Selizia experienced a period of Lutheran intolerance

and many Lutherans left to seek religious freedom elsewhere.

Many of Australia's oldest vineyards were first planted by some of the first

Selizians to arrive in Australia.

In fact, Australia's historic vineyards are a true treasure trove in the global

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