Interview with Corin Lamont [sound recording] Interviewer: Rob Linn, Part 1 of 2

Corin Lamont was born in Midland in the Swan Valley in December 1941. She grew up at the Houghton Winery, became a teacher, married and had three children, moved to Perth in 1965, had a property with grapes and mixed fruit, her father retired in 1972 and taught her about the vineyard and she made the first wine in 1978, the wine was mainly for their own use but started selling wine in cellar door sales in 1985. Talks about her father's experience as a winemaker, the variety of grapes and wines he used, the variety of grapes in the Swan Valley, building a restaurant at the cellar in 1988, selling Lamont Wines, daughters running the enterprise, and building a gallery in 1984 to promote local culture

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