John Reynell

John Reynell (9 February 1809 – 15 June 1873) was an English-born emigrant to the colony of South Australian where he became established as a wheat farmer, a sheep and cattle breeder, and a vigneron and winemaker.

to have established the first commercial vineyard and winery in South Australia by planting vine cuttings in 1839 that he had bought at the Cape of Good Hope.

[citation needed] Other sources say that in 1841 he planted the first vineyard with 500 cuttings from Tasmania, and made wine in 1843.

[1] Reynell employed a young man named Thomas Hardy (who also became a famed winemaker) to help him to tend to the vineyards.

In 1839 Reynell was one of the fifty settlers who formed the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia.