JAR, COSMETIC - INNOXA MILK GLASS

Innoxa is a line of skincare products first created by Dr Francois Debat in the late 1910s. He originally earned a doctorate in pharmacology before becoming a medical doctor and serving in the First World War as a medic. His business empire would expand into the United Kingdom and its Commonwealth nations. Eventually parts of the company would be sold off and retain the Innoxa name or be sold and become part of major pharceutical or cosmetic brands.

The Richon vineyard was originally planted by Joseph and Anton Marian in 1901 as Marians Vineyard with some locals referring to it as The Slavonian Vineyard. Joseph was Anton’s uncle and was originally from Austria.

A cellar was built at the site in 1906 but was almost completely burnt to the ground in 1914, it would be rebuilt and extended.

In 1919 the vineyard was sold to Gerald Valentine Patrick McCarthy who renamed it in 1920 to Richon after Rishon LeZion, a town in what is now Israel. McCarthy had spent time in the town during the First World War as an intelligence officer.