This place is connected to a wider Schild surname story in Barossa Valley wine history, not a confirmed part of our direct family line.
An old vine trunk photographed at another Barossa Valley vineyard, used here only to illustrate the character of a working century old vine. This is not one of the Moorooroo vines.
Photograph by Stephan Ridgway, 2010, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Moorooroo sits between Jacob’s Creek and the North Para River. Its name comes from an Indigenous word meaning “meeting of two waters.” It contains the last four remaining rows of Shiraz planted in 1847 by Ann Jacobs, later Ann Horrocks, eleven years after the founding of South Australia, among some of the oldest surviving producing vines in the world.
The Schild family did not plant these vines. Their role came more than a century later. Today they are their current custodians, helping preserve what remains.