Landmark Wine: 1924 Lindeman’s St Cora Burgundy

This wine was served at the Kirkton Vineyard centenary banquet by Leo Buring, although the vineyard had not quite made the hundred years. The 1924 vintage was the last made from this property; about a hundred gallons of chablis and a hundred gallons of burgundy were made that year. The vineyard was subsequently abandoned, but the St Cora name prospered, becoming one of Australia’s most recognised wines of the 1940s and 1950s. The Lindeman’s Ben Ean Vineyard subsequently became an important source for the wine after the abandonment of the Kirkton Vineyard.