1897 – 1956
Winemaker
Maurice O’Shea was born in 1897 in North Sydney, to John Augustus O’Shea, an Irish-born wine-and-spirit merchant, and Leontine Frances, who came from France.
The young O’Shea trained as a viticulturist and analytical chemist at the University of Montpellier before returning to NSW in 1920.
He began to make wine on the family property at Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley and in 1925 he named the vineyard Mount Pleasant – a brand still well known and respected to this day.
He died of cancer in May, 1956 in his flat at Newcastle.
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