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Mount Prior Vineyard, Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia

The majestic Mount Prior homestead at Rutherglen Victoria sits high above the undulating hills of the vine growing region. The homestead was built in 1884-86 and has an imposing brick tower and flag pole, a symbol of 19th century wine growing grandeur. Mount Prior was a major wine producer of northern Victoria. Currently, the 435 acre property has 100 acres planted to vines. The existing residence of Mount Prior Vineyard was built for Alexander Caughey circa 1885 and a landmark in the district and in the 1870s became a substantial business empire which included a Melbourne based wine and spirit business and the Chateau Tabbilk vineyard at Nagambie northern Victoria.

The majestic single storey brick residence has a landmark tower built from pressed red bricks founded on the property. The homestead has many period features which include several original white Carrara marble fireplaces, polished NZ Kauri flooring, fine red cedar margin-glazing to the windows and doors. The windows and doors display unusual circular and radial glazing bar patterns to the fanlights. Other period features include rendered mouldings to the windows, a finely detailed and rendered and tower flagpole visible from the main road. The homestead has an extensive two-level subterranean stone wine cellar built in 1896 with capacity for 200,000 gallons of wine in 500 and 800 gallon casks. The brick tower was unstable and demolished in 1951 and rebuilt on solid foundations in the late 1970’s

Today, a solid brick and stone cellar are a memory of how the world’s most modem wine making equipment. The workers’ quarters, a blacksmith’s shop, boiler house, engine room, cooperage, distillery and fermenting room completed this self-sufficient operation, which supplied huge quantities of fortified wines to its Melbourne warehouse operations. During the late 19th century the Caughey’s planted an olive grove on both sides of the former driveway, today these mature Olive trees can be seen from the roadside as a strong reminder of their endurance with time and has local heritage significance.