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Asiaing.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Marketing can be interpreted in many ways. The ambit of marketing in this document is the fully developed concept which encompasses product offer and brands, distribution channels, pricing, sales, promotion and communications. The application of marketing in this instance is at the category level (Australian wine).
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Winorama (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
De Iuliis isn’t just the hardest name to spell in Australian wine, it’s also one of the great quiet achievers. This Show Reserve Shiraz is a superlative release, from a great Hunter red vintage, at a very reasonable price. You need a subscription to The Wine Front to see this part of the post
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Winorama (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
One of the ironies of Australian wine is that even those who like to rage against high alcohol wines are often seduced by them; Plantagenet cabernet being a prime example. I don’t much fancy the idea of high alcohol cabernet but I tend to prefer Plantagenet cabernet when the alcohol is up a bit. This [...]
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Winorama (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
There are two movements in Australian wine at the moment: the move to ever-drier styles, and the fall to sweetness. The fall to sweetness was a surreptitious movement for many years but over the past 3-5 years it’s become ever-more obvious, even confident. Nowhere is this movement more dramatic than with riesling, where off-dry and [...]
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Vinodiversity (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
These guys really know how use the best Australian ingredients. Their cookbook shows you how to use the treasures of Australian Bush Tucker, things like wattleseed, macadamia nut oil and other flavourings, spices and seasonings.
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Shiraz (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
I iust received an email from an Etailer here in the US offering Penfold's Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz 2004 for $11.99USD or $9.99/btl if you buy six. Usual excuse - the distributor wants to move some boxes - one time deal. Wine Searcher has this from $9.95 to the more usual $24.99. Linked over to their site to see what other deals are on offer. Quite a few. The best is the 2003 Winter Creek Shiraz at $14.99uSD...
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Winorama (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Mount Majura has been a brilliant addition to the Australian wine scene in recent years. Its shiraz is its best and most interesting wine. You need to be logged in to see this part of the post
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Shiraz (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Blogging is almost always about links. The more links you have in your posts, especially to sites with significant traffic, the better chance you have for search engines to include your blog in searches for that link. There are two important aspects to links. First, they have to be current because the internet is simply not static enough for links to remain permanent. And second, the dynamic nature...
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Vinodiversity (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
The Iberian Peninsula produces a stunning and varied array of wines. The classic reds of Rioja and Ribiera del Duero, the graceful albarino from Galicia, rose from just about everywhere but especially from the emerging region of Navarre, the ports and vinho verdi from Portugal and of course the wonderful sherries.A new map of the Iberian Peninsula now been published. Detail below.The map has been produced...
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Vinodiversity (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
The fourth International Barbera Competition will be held later this year in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. The organisers have gone to some lengths to get some entries from Australia and US so it will be intersting to see the results later in the year.
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
SALES of Australian wine have continued to slow in the US, with beverage giant Foster's experiencing declines in five of its top 10 brands.
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Winorama (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Jim Barry Armagh shiraz is one of the stars of Australian wine - I just didn’t know it. It’s a much better, and more complex, wine once it has a few years under its belt than it is as a young wine, when it can seem monolithic and one dimensional. It is neither. It improves [...]
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Winorama (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
The best shiraz was from Gundagai. The second best from the Strathbogie Ranges. I visited the Victorian Alps winery near Myrtleford in north-east Victoria last week and as always happens when I visit a winery like this - I’m reminded that the future of Australian wine is a very different place to the past. [...]
