Theodor Gustav Hermann Büring (1846 – 8 September 1919),[1] commonly anglicized to "Herman" and "Buring", was an Australian wine merchant and vigneron.
He returned to Adelaide and in 1879 opened a bakery and grocer's shop on the corner of Pirie and Ackland streets, gaining a storekeeper's colonial wine licence in 1882.
Around this time he became sole agent for Spring Vale wines[4] made by C. A. Sobels[a] at Springvale Estate (founded by Walter Watson Hughes, who died in 1887, and owned or managed by James McKinnon Richman, a prolific philanthropist,[7] at Watervale.
In 1897 they adopted the brand name Quellthaler ("from spring vale") for their light dry white wines, changed to Quelltaler in 1932[8] to overcome a frequent mispronunciation by non-German speakers.
[2] He was a member of the Phylloxera Board from its inception in 1900 He donated the T. C. H. Buring prize, awarded annually to a viticulture student at Roseworthy College.