Barry Gray has produced a meticulously researched comprehensive history of the wine industry in the Riverina district. This book details how a once-desolate area of New South Wales became a thriving agricultural region through the addition of managed water resources. It focuses on the grape farms and their contribution to a developing wine industry. The Riverina, and in particular the Mirrool Irrigation Area, is the only major wine-producing district of Australia which to date has not been written about in depth.
