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Pelz On Wine (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Last Sunday, we assembled at the Jahnke's for our November wine salon. Food was delicious and we tasted through a bunch of Australian wines. As you read my notes, please bear in mind that I have generally abdicated the idea of drinking Aussie wines, so some of the wines served were a real revelation while others were huge disappointments. Interestingly enough, we started off with a Tasmanian Sparkler...
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Willie's Wine Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I'm laid up again. This time with a nasty stomach bug/flu, looks like someone is trying to ensure I don't enjoy the celebrations for my (hem-hem)th birthday. I seem (touch wood) to be over the worst of it and while I'm not yet in the mood to drink wine I should be able to at least waffle about it. Also (touch wood again) I'm going to finally get to go to a Wine Australia do, this one , next Tuesday....
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Australian Wine Review (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The results of the 2009 National (Australian) Wine Show were announced in Canberra tonight, and now the winners have been announced lifted I can publish the particularly interesting trophy results (below). Of particular note is not the winners themselves, but where they are sourced from, with a predominance of trophy wines sourced not from the traditional heartland of South Australia, but instead from...
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Robert Francis Wine (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
John Wilson’s Favourite Australians John Mc Donnell has come up with yet another fantastic tasting !! “During the summer I gave John (Wilson) the task of pulling together his selection of Favourite Australian wines. The task wasn’t to draw up a list of Australia’s best wines, but as John says, “My first criteria for choosing these wines was very [...]
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VinoFictions (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Patient: “Doctor, doctor, Claude Rains is in my brains or at least one of his characters is. All day long for the past week my mind has repeated over and over, ‘I’m shocked to learn that people cheat!’” Doctor: “That’s probably because people do cheat and also because you’ve been told this over and over. When was the last time that you remember someone...
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The Wine Connoisseur (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Wine growers in Australia are spending millions piping in water to save their vineyards. Published on http://wine.the-world-in-focus.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Soiree bottle-top Wine Decanter & Aerator Product Description This is soiree is a bottle-top wine aerator. Soirée fits securely into any wine bottle allowing you to pour without dripping directly through the Soirée. By pouring...
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Marc Valdez Weblog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Australian wines are in big trouble , but trouble there means trouble everywhere. Worldwide, vineyards have been expanding rapidly, but are there enough people in the world drinking wine? And can they possibly keep up with the supply': The report was issued yesterday in the form of a joint statement by four industry groups, the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia, Wine Grape Growers of Australia,...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Australia drowning in a sea of surplus Sauvignon AUSTRALIA has a lot of wine sitting around:Australia has an accumulated surplus of 100 million cases of wine that will double in the next two years if current trends continue, according to the report. The annual surplus is huge – equal to all UK export sales and there is no clear prospect of finding additional demand, either domestic or foreign,...
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binendwines (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Diageo is the world’s biggest drinks group with brands such as Johnny Walker, Baileys, Gordon’s, Guinness and countless others that are almost household names. Being formed from takeovers and mergers between spirits producers and breweries it never really had a presence in the wine market. That was until 2006 when it sent eyes rolling in sockets all over the drinks world with the announcement...
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Decanter.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Great Australian Wine Dinner will be re-launched this month, as diners gather to support the Judy Hirst Memorial Foundation.
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Wino sapien (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Porongurup, Great Southern, Western Australia. Pinot noir. 13.5%. Approx $A20. Screwcap. The last pinot noir I tried from this part of the world was four times the price and had a lovely combination of tightness and give. I was curious to see how this more modestly priced bottled compared. . . Cherry liqueur and sap, as well the scent of the Australian bush (dried eucalyptus leaves, earth). Quite full,...
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Serious About Wine (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A clever line of phonetically spelled wines designed by Caroline Gilroy: “I have designed a new range of Australian wines. The concept behind Vee-Noh! is pronunciation. I have worked in the hospitality industry for a few years and am always amused how people pronounce certain wines, often incorrectly. I believe I have developed a cheeky solution.” Source [...]
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Drinking Outside The Box (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
That most erudite of wine scribes Andrew Jefford has been spending this year in Australia as what amounts to wine writer in residence at the University of Adelaide, while he researches a book on Australian terroir. Today he delivered a lecture at the National Wine Centre in Adelaide for the Wine 2030 Research Network’s ‘Blue [...]
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Italian Wine Blog - Wine90 (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Matt Skinner The Juice 2010 Matt Skinner The Juice 2010 is no ordinary wine book. Matt Skinner has created a new kind of wine handbook that has been sadly missing from the UK shelves and one every avid wine fan (who shops at the supermarket!) should not be without. How many times have you gone along to the local supermarket or one of the chains (Majestic, Threshers, WineRack etc) and come away with...
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Australian Wine Review (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
A statement to the wine industry by the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia, Wine Grape Growers’ Australia, the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation and the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation Released today: Have a read here I've had only a cursory read, so can't make any decisive comments as yet, but it did seem to be a response that was firmly worded and absolutely...
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