This place is connected to a wider Schild surname story in Barossa Valley wine history, not a confirmed part of our direct family line.
The Barossa Valley, seen from above.
Photograph by Tam, 2009, CC BY SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Barossa Valley, north of Adelaide in South Australia, is one of the country’s best known wine regions. German and English settlers began arriving from the late 1830s, and the valley’s warm, dry summers and old vineyard soils made it well suited to grapes almost from the start.
The Schild family have grown grapes here since 1952, when Ben and Alma Schild settled a property on Narrow Road. Nearby, at Moorooroo, four rows of Shiraz planted in 1847 by Ann Jacobs still survive, among some of the oldest producing vines in the world.