# Edmond Mazure > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edmond_Mazure > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edmond_Mazure.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Mazure > Source revision: 1328487688 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|South Australian vigneron}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}} '''Leon Edmond Mazure''' (1861? 1864? – 29 April 1939), generally known as Edmond Mazure, was a French winemaker, known for his work in South Australia. ==History== Mazure was born in [Villeneuve](/source/Villeneuve-Renneville-Chevigny), France, later lived in [Coulommiers](/source/Coulommiers%2C_Seine-et-Marne), and studied winemaking in France and Spain. Around 1885 he began employment as a winemaker for Sydney Davenport at [Beaumont, South Australia](/source/Beaumont%2C_South_Australia), and was [naturalized](/source/naturalized) that same year, later worked for Charles B. Young at [Kanmantoo](/source/Kanmantoo%2C_South_Australia). In 1888 he was taken on as partner by Sir [Josiah Symon](/source/Josiah_Symon) to oversee winemaking at Auldana, which he had just taken over from [W. P. Auld](/source/W._P._Auld). Auldana was exporting their St. Henri claret to London, but facing increasing competition from Italian wineries, so began production of sparkling wines, producing South Australia's first champagne in 1895. New cellars were tunneled from the solid rock under the hill, and by 1897 they had storage capacity for {{convert|300,000|impgal|kl}} of wine.Geoffrey C. Bishop ''The Vineyards of Adelaide'', Lynton Publications, Blackwood, South Australia. {{ISBN|0 86946 280 6}} He later founded the La Pérouse vineyards. In 1915 he survived a collision when the car in which he was riding crashed into a train at a level crossing on the Willunga Road. The other two occupants were killed.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59621081 |title=A Double Tragedy |newspaper=[The Register](/source/The_Register_(Adelaide)) |location=Adelaide |date=14 September 1915 |accessdate=24 February 2015 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} A son, Emile Edward Mazure, served with the 14/32nd Infantry of the [AIF](/source/First_Australian_Imperial_Force). He was caught selling wine illegally but was acquitted on a technicality – the way the law was drafted, the offence was selling quantities less than {{convert|5|impgal|litres}} and the volume involved was somewhat greater.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54161742 |title=Licensing Act Loophole |newspaper=[The Register News-Pictorial](/source/The_Register_News-Pictorial) |location=Adelaide |date=16 January 1930 |accessdate=24 February 2015 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} In 1920 he retired to [Victor Harbor](/source/Victor_Harbor%2C_South_Australia),{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163313879 |title=Pioneers' History. |newspaper=[The Victor Harbor Times and Encounter Bay and Lower Murray Pilot](/source/The_Victor_Harbor_Times_and_Encounter_Bay_and_Lower_Murray_Pilot) |location=SA |date=21 December 1923 |accessdate=24 February 2015 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} This reference gives his DOB 30 October 1861 where he lived until shortly before his death. == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mazure, Edmond}} Category:Australian winemakers Category:1860s births Category:1939 deaths Category:French emigrants to Australia Category:Immigrants to former British colonies and protectorates in Oceania Category:Colony of South Australia people --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edmond Mazure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Mazure) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Mazure?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.