Lake George

Lake George (or Weerewaa in the indigenous language) is a lake in south-eastern New South Wales, about 30 minutes drive north-east of Canberra along the Federal Highway heading towards Sydney. Lake George has long had a reputation for mystery. It's an unusual place where the water comes and goes, and it draws visitors to its vast, wind ruffled surface. For the past 25 years it's also drawn wine growers and winemakers. Free draining soils with basalt elements, east facing vineyards that escape searing western sun and wind and available water moving through the landscape towards the lake catchment all contribute to healthy grape growth.

It is renowned for emptying and filling on a cyclical basis, and for the treachery of its waters when full (a number of people have drowned). Lake George is a phenomenon. It has been known to disappear virtually overnight. The lake has been totally dry in 1837, 1870, 1902, most of the1930s and the early1980s. It has been completely full in 1852, 1897, 1925, the 1950s and the mid-1980s. There is no pattern to this strange phenomenon.