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Kalgoorlie vineyard makes dessert wine far from WA’s viniculture heart
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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3/23/2025
Kalgoorlie on the west Australian goldfields is often acquainted with gold mines and very hot and dry climate. But winemaker Geoff Paynter also sees it as the perfect place to produce a good red.
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It's just before six in the morning, and grape picking is well underway.
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Who picks grapes in Kiguli?
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People who can't find gold.
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It's probably about 30 degrees.
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It's going to be a hot day.
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They're predicting 46.
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Sitting on the fringes of the Great Victoria Desert, this outback city is probably the
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last place you'd expect to see a vineyard, but Geoff begs to differ.
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Kiguli boulders always had a big history of Italians and they all had vineyards in
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their backyard.
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That was certainly not uncommon.
00:39
I had bigger plans, but water is the biggest issue in Kiguli, so I'm a bit limited there.
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During the week he works as a surveyor for the mining industry, but on the weekends he's
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tending to his vines.
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I think as a surveyor I should be able to get the rows pretty straight, yes.
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And once a year he has a few more hands on deck.
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Every year this is a bit of a ritual for us.
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All of his mates are just happy to help out.
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Geoff established the vineyard in 2001 with his wife Catherine.
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I was making the wine, and Catherine was trying to sell it and market it and do the like,
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so when she passed on that sort of stalled a bit, so now I'm trying to regroup and get
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going again.
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Kiguli is all about friends.
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There's a lot of people I call friends here in Kiguli, and Kiguli is good for that.
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Wine may not be on the menu for another few months, but I'm sure there'll be something
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else on offer a bit later today.
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