Extracts From A Barossa Heritage

GRAMPS WEINKELLER RESTAURANT.
William Jacob was a twenty-year old assistant surveyor to Colonel William Light. He arrived in 1836 on the Rapid. Jacob helped survey the area in 1836, two years after the valley had been seen and named by Colonel William Light.
William Jacob built a wine cellar in 1856 from bluestone quarried from the creek which bears his name, Jacobs Creek.
Pastoral pursuits' occupied Jacob for several years before founding his vineyard and cellars in the Hundred of Moorooroo, an area that includes Jacobs Creek, and the town of Tanunda.
The property was purchased from the Jacob estate in 1935 by Gramp's Orlando, a neighbouring family company which had been founded by Johann Gramp in 1847, a Bavarian who arrived in South Australia in 1837.
Gramps used the buildings which Jacob had built for implement storage until it was bought by a great-grandson of Johann - Colin Gramp, his wife Josephine, with the intention of turning the old cellars into a restaurant.