Aboriginal vineyard hopes to fund a new beginning

Five of the 16 men who planted Australia’s only Aboriginal vineyard have died since they laboured beneath the central western sun more than a decade ago. The grapes remain, drooping in the heat from neat lines of vines in an otherwise arid paddock next to the tiny Murrin Bridge Aboriginal community near Lake Cargelligo. But 609 cases of Murrin Bridge Connection wines sitting in a cellar in Griffith to the south is the promise of new life for the vineyard and employment for the community that created it, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.