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Pyrenees wines to face-off against Europe’s legendary best Award-winning wines from Victoria’s Pyrenees will be benchmarked ...[more]Up with the best For Tim Kirk, former teacher of religion at Melbourne’s Xavier ...[more]
A taste of the Icons Last month d’arenberg invited a group of journalists from around ...[more]
Hunter Valley Wine Show Hart & Hunter Wines is a newcomer, owned by Damien Stevens and ...[more]
2010 Clear Image Hunter Valley Wine Show Trophy Winners 2010 Hart & Hunter Single Vineyard Semillon – Best ...[more]
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Q3 2007 | Q4 2007 | Q1 2008 | Q2 2008 | Q3 2008 | Q4 2008 | Q1 2009 | Q2 2009 | Q3 2009 | Q4 2009 | Q1 2010 | Q2 2010 | Q3 2010• Pyrenees wines to face-off against Europe’s legendary best 1 Sep 2010
Award-winning wines from Victoria’s Pyrenees will be benchmarked against some of Europe’s legendary wineries - including M. Chapoutier - at an exclusive Masterclass to be held at
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• Hunter Valley Wine Show 20 Aug 2010
Hart & Hunter Wines is a newcomer, owned by Damien Stevens and Jodie Belleville, Jodie from the Brokenwood Wines finishing school and, along with Damien, now a winemaker at
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• 2010 Clear Image Hunter Valley Wine Show Trophy Winners 20 Aug 2010
2010 Hart & Hunter Single Vineyard Semillon – Best Current Vintage Semillon); Best Current Vintage Dry White Wine (10 classes eligible); 2010 First Creek Winemakers
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• Wines not Mines in Margaret River 20 Aug 2010
He who pokes sticks into the Margaret River winemaker bears had better be prepared for reaction, and verbal retaliation. The news that a new coal mining project is being
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• Riverland grapegrowers 20 Aug 2010
The Daily Wine News has an item highlighting the plight of the Riverland grapegrowers; the average price received in 2010 was $268 per tonne, down from a record high of $673 in
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• Pacifica menu 17 Aug 2010
I can think of no better way to describe the food at Pacifica than give you the menu. All of the dishes are in entrée size serves (though, it must be said, some larger than others)
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• Young Gun of Wine - and the winner is… 17 Aug 2010
Rollo Crittenden announced as Young Gun of Wine, 2010 Rollo Crittenden of Crittenden Estate on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, is the 2010 Young Gun of Wine, announced tonight
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• Universal Restaurant - Best Food & Wine Matching 4 Aug 2010• Wine Intelligence quarterly report 3 Aug 2010
The Quarterly Wine Report issued on July 30 by Wine Intelligence has some interesting statistics on the much-talked about Chinese market. Of the total population of 1.33 billion,
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• Australian Shiraz regions 28 Jul 2010
A piece by Benjamin Quigan on 3news.co.nz, states that the Barossa Valley, Coonawarra, Hunter Valley, Clare Valley and McLaren Vale are the most notable shiraz regions. The
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• Screwcaps and the Iberian Lynx 28 Jul 2010
With nothing much else in their armoury, the constant barrage of press releases and stories blaming screwcaps for the imminent destruction of all wildlife in the cork forests of
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• Screwcaps 23 Jul 2010
Surveying as many screwcaps as I do, it surprises me that few wineries pay much attention to the possibility of graphics on the screwcap. Domain Day is a stellar exception,
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• Langton’s Classification of Australian Wine V 20 Jul 2010
Langton’s Classification of Australian Wine V (ie the fifth) was completed earlier this year, and, to celebrate the release of the booklet, Langton’s is hosting a tasting of all
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• The Big Red Wine Book 2010/11 19 Jul 2010
The Big Red Wine Book 2010/11 by Campbell Mattinson and Gary Walsh explores every aspect of the red wine scene in Australia at the present time. It is extremely user-friend
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• Tasmanian International Cool Climate Wine Symposium discussion 19 Jul 2010
There has been a fair amount of traffic on the Daily Wine News e-letter on Tasmania winning the right to host the 2012 International Cool Climate Wine Symposium. An anonymous
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• Australian white wine in the UK 16 Jul 2010
Fascinated to read a piece in the English Off Licence News Magazine that McGuigan Wines has released a Semillon Blanc onto the UK market. It will be available exclusively
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• 2010 Royal Queensland Wine Show 12 Jul 2010
The usual blizzard of emails from successful exhibitors at the 2010 Royal Queensland Wine Show are strewn across my desk. It’s been a very long time since the Foster’s Group has
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• The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria 11 Jul 2010
The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria continues to reinvent itself in the most positive fashion, with CEO Mark O’Sullivan, wine show committee chairman Stephen Shelmerdine,
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• Grenache Symposium 9 Jul 2010
Early in June a Grenache Symposium was held in the southern Rhône Valley, with keynote speakers including Randall Grahm and Zelma Long from the US, Eben Sadie from South Africa,
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• New Zealand Wine 2010 Vintage 8 Jul 2010
The New Zealand wine industry has announced its 2010 vintage results. While the area under production continued to rise to 33,200 hectares, an increase of 2000 hectares on the
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• The International Cool Climate Wine Symposium - Tasmania 8 Jul 2010
Fresh from her release from the pressure tank of Constellation and appointment as CEO of Wine Industry Tasmania, Sheralee Davies has been able to come up with a significant
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• The Winewise International Pinot Noir tasting 8 Jul 2010
The Winewise International Pinot Noir tasting, with six wines from each of Australia, New Zealand and Burgundy, and all from the ‘05 or ‘06 vintage, ended up with New Zealand the
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• Wine Intelligence 29 Jun 2010
Wine Intelligence is the foremost business analysing all aspects of consumption of wine in the UK. In a recent overview it looked at the number of monthly wine buyers in
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• La Nina Cycle 28 Jun 2010
For website The Bureau of
Meteorology believes a La Nina cycle is more likely than not to form before the
end of the current winter, bringing greater than average rainfall to
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• Aldersyde Estate 21 Jun 2010
Lara Bray has had a stellar career before returning to the family vineyard and winery Aldersyde Estate in the Perth Hills. Originally called Piesse Brook , it is a mother-daught
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• Chalkers Crossing 16 Jun 2010
For website I have always
particularly liked the wines of Chalkers Crossing , made by Celine Rousseau, who
has a magic touch. The 2007 Chalkers Crossing Hilltops Shiraz
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• Pure Wine from a Pure Place 15 Jun 2010
Crafting wines that express their unique terroir, grape variety and season involves art, science and passion, something that the Davies quickly realised before carefully choosing
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• Remington Norman’s Great Domaines of Burgundy 15 Jun 2010
Book publishers can be a strange lot. While in Burgundy I searched high and low for the recently released third edition of Remington Norman’s Great Domaines of Burgundy.
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• Taylors Wines wins four gold medals at the 2010 Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 11 May 2010
Taylors Wines winning four gold medals at the 2010 Concours Mondial de Bruxelles is an exceptional achievement. To reach a gold requires five judges from different countries
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• Angove’s sitting at the top of Australian Top 5 10 May 2010
The US-based Wine and Spirits Magazine is one of the most highly regarded by those truly knowledgeable about wine. It has just announced its ‘Global Top 50 2010 Value Wine
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• Queensland at 2010 Royal Wine Show 5 May 2010
Queensland’s own Masters of Wine Andrew Corrigan and Peter Scudamore-Smith are sponsoring a new trophy for 2010 Royal Queensland Wine Show – conducted annually since 1876 – to be
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• Ben Edwards supports Winesave 23 Apr 2010
The Wine Companion’s Ben Edwards has come out in unqualified support for an Australian developed and trademarked product called winesave (RRP $29.95). It is a pressure can
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• Dates Set for 2010 Canberra International Riesling Challenge 23 Apr 2010
The Canberra International Riesling Challenge (CIRC) will be held on 11 – 16 October 2010. The CIRC is the largest single varietal wine show of its kind in the Southern
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• Stephen Doyle's climate matrix 22 Apr 2010
BLOG? Using download of the matrix as illustration Stephen Doyle of Bloodwood, one of the pioneer wineries of the Orange region, has come up with a matrix of a whole host of
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• Len Evans Tutorial 22 Apr 2010
Applications for the 2010 Len Evans Tutorial will be open from 3 May until 6 August 2010. The event itself takes place at Tower Lodge in the Hunter Valley during the week
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• James' new blog 22 Apr 2010
Click here to visit James
Halliday's Australian Wine Companion Blog. Follow James' comments and thoughts
on the Australian Wine Industry and the issues affecting it. Don't
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• Vinexpo 20 Apr 2010
Vinexpo in Bordeaux, held every two years, saw a number of the world’s largest wine groups withdrawing from its Bordeaux event in the wake of the GFC and world wine surplus.
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• The Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 20 Apr 2010
The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (the 18th) attracted 400,000 visitors over its 12-day staging of more than 250 events. This represented a 33% increase on the 2009
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• Coldstream Hills 16 Apr 2010
It is a beautiful day at Coldstream Hills in the Yarra Valley with a forecast of 25°C and sunny. Take a look at the beautiful view.
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• Full “Chinese Food & Wine Pairing” medal result 24 Mar 2010
The Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine & Spirit Competition has released a full listing of medal winners for its Chinese food and wine pairing award categories,
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• Artisans of Barossa 23 Mar 2010
Artisans of Barossa is a group of winemakers who regard themselves as custodians of the future. They came together in 2006 with the aim of advancing small Barossa
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• Nat Decants Free Mobile App 17 Mar 2010
Natalie MacLean has launched a new mobile wine app that you might find helpful when you're shopping for wine in the bottle shop or choosing wine from a restaurant list. This new
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• The Champagne region unveils a new bottle to cut carbon emissions 17 Mar 2010
Epernay, France – The CIVC announced today the official launch of a new standard bottle to significantly cut the carbon emission of the region. The use of the new bottle
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• Sticks wins trophy for 'Best Red Table Wine' 9 Mar 2010
Sticks Yarra Valley has received further national acclaim for its recently released Sticks No.29 range at the 2010 Sydney International Wine Competition. Sticks won the Blue-Gold
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• Clare Valley welcomes Artisan’s Table Bar and Bistro 3 Mar 2010
South Australia’s Clare Valley is excited to welcome a new restaurant, Artisan’s Table Wine Bar and Bistro. Owner and chef Roger Graham has a wealth of experience, working as
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• Britt Karsson and Per release new newsletter 25 Feb 2010
Two Swedes, Britt Karsson, with help from partner Per, have just released their most recent newsletter. Its 13 pages cover a lot of ground, inevitably with the greater focus on
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• Seasonal Regional Victoria 25 Feb 2010
Pink Alley will be transformed this season as Chef Michael Nunn delights punters with an eight course degustation menu. Each course from this seasonal menu will showcase the ne
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• Pace yourself for a Slow & Long Margaret River Lunch 22 Feb 2010
Good things come to those who wait and the 2010 Margaret River Wine Region Festival’s inaugural Slow & Long Lunch will reward patience! The Slow Food movement was founded to
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• 'Uncorking the web for wineries' - Margaret River Wine Industry small business online grant success 22 Feb 2010
The Margaret River Wine Industry Association has signed a formal agreement with the Federal Government’s AusIndustry (Department of Innovation, Industry, Science & Research)
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• 2009 marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Moss Brothers family vineyard 29 Jan 2010
Jeff Moss recounts the 25-year journey as he sold the small family grape growing business and became vineyard manager for B Seppelt & Sons at Waikerie in the Riverland, as
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• The Romance of Wine 22 Jan 2010
Wine tutorials return to Moncur Terrace, The Woollahra Hotel, Tuesdays, March 9th – 23rd. The romance of wine, a series of consumer wine tutorials, will return to Moncur Terrace (
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• Winner of the 2010 L’Erudito Scholarship Announced 22 Jan 2010
Galli Estate Winery is pleased to announce Jeannette Clarke has been awarded the L’Erudito 2010: The Lorenzo Galli Scholarship. Jeannette - the wine buyer and manager at inner-cit
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• 2010 Australia Day Wine of the Year 20 Jan 2010
London’s International Wine Challenge, coming off the back of the annual London Wine Trade Fair, has always been delighted to come up with the odd controversial trophy,
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• McWilliams's Wines Academy becomes WSET provider 11 Jan 2010
McWilliam’s Wines has become the first Australian winery to offer the Wine & Spirits Education Trust, Level Three Advanced Certificate in Wines & Spirits to liquor trade,
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