Gresford

Dr. Henry John Lindeman married Eliza Harriet Bramhall on 11 February 1840 at Southampton. They left England shortly after on the barque Theresa arriving in Sydney on 18th August 1840. On arrival in Australia the Lindemans settled at Gresford on the Paterson River where Dr. Lindeman established a medical practice.

In 1842 he purchased land from George Townshend of Trevallyn. Townshend had been forced to sell due to the drought and depression. Dr. Lindeman named his property Cawarra. Here he built a slab cottage for his growing family and established a vineyard on the north western side of the Paterson River.

In 1850 he gave the following report to the Hunter River Vineyard Association - Caewarra Wines - The red wine is made from the Cyras grape, of the vintage 1849, fermented in open vats then casked; it has been racked four times, and the sample has been take from a cask for the present occasion. The soil of the vineyard is a mixture of river sand and vegetable mould, subject to be occasionally flooded; the pruning is the spur method as adopted in France the age of the vines three and four years. The white wine is from the Rousette grape, grown in exactly the same soil, and subjected to the same treatment, as the red wine, with the exception that no skins were fermented with the must, H.J. Lindeman