Interview with Norman Hanckel [transcript] Interviewer: Rob Linn

Norman Hanckel was born in Adelaide in 1929. His father had a vineyard and farm in the Barossa Valley. He moved to the Barossa when he was 10 years old; won a scholarship to Roseworthy College 1946 to 1949; and when he was 19 became supervisor for all Seppelts vineyards in Australia for 3 years. He bought his father's property and started a vine breeding program. In 1957 he became the production manager at Yalumba which involved 400 grape growers. He stayed 10 years and in 1968 moved to Hungerford Hill in the Hunter Valley. He travelled extensively overseas and interstate. He was a Commissioner for 3 years with the Industries Assistance Commission in Canberra, head of the NSW Department of Industrial Development and owned his own winery at Camden in NSW from 1977 called Camden Park

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