A 1950’s Wine Commercial – Melody Hill

By Jono • July 16, 2008

I was mucking around with YouTube todayÂ looking at anythingÂ related to wine. I came across this 1950’s TV commercial for Melody Hill Wines. How things have changed.

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Jono

Jono has been involved in the wine industry since he was quite young. His parents had a small vineyard and winery in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, and spent plenty of school holidays working in the vineyard and winery. He completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Oenology) from the University of Adelaide (formely the Roseworthy Agricultural College). He also holds a Post Graduate Degree in Business Management from Monash University. His wine industry experience include working as a winemaker for Petaluma in the Adelaide Hills under the legendary Brian Croser. He was then sent to Smithbrook in the Pemberton region of Western Australia, then owned by Petaluma. He spent 6 years at Smithbrook managing the vineyard and winery, and during that time also completed a vintage at Chateau Carsin in Bordeaux. The two years leading into 2008, he traveled the world with his partner sampling the worlds best wines, and also fulfilling his other passion of equestrian competition.

One Response to “ A 1950’s Wine Commercial – Melody Hill ”

norman lafferty Dec 27th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

i have a bottle of wine with the label that reads like this
serve well chilled
pizza
new york state
red dinner wine
melody hill
wine
it has a state of illinios stamp on it
a bar owner names bus schiff who ran the 102 lounge in paxton ill gave it to me. it has not been opened. the lounge had caught fire one year and he told me it was behind a wall in the bar.
wondering if you would know how much it is worth
thank you norman

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