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Wine Regions

Australian White Wine

3 February 2009
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Australia is often regarded as a ‘new-world’ wine making region, a market that has really only been in the competition for just over a decade. However, as any proud Australian will tell you, this nation’s wine-making history is as deep and rich as any good bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon. It was Governor Phillip, a British [...]

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German White Wine

29 January 2009
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Like much of Europe, Germany’s wine making history was impacted by the arrival of the Romans whose viticultural practices, such as the trellis systems, were still used in Germany right through to the eighteenth century. However, it was perhaps the spread of Christianity many centuries later that had the largest impact on the success of [...]

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Italian White Wine

27 January 2009
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The very mention of the word ‘Italy’ tends to conjure up several images; good wine, good food, fashion, beautiful villas set amongst rolling hills or a traditional Tuscan landscape…but if we just go back to that first image again, ‘wine’, how many of us can truly say they associate Italy with white wine rather than [...]

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New Zealand White Wines

7 January 2009
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If Australia is considered a new-world wine-maker, then New Zealand must surely be the younger brother; and whilst the patriotism of the country wouldn’t allow for comparison, it has to be fair to say that without the successes of Australian exports, the rest of the world would have rarely ventured from the safety of Europe’s [...]

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American Wine

12 December 2008
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It is widely believed in the United States the 1976 Judgment of Paris launched the American wine industry, after a blind tasting showed how well Californian wines performed against more established French wines. Grape growing and winemaking in the United States began long before then however.

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South African White Wine

12 December 2008
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Hailed by some of the most renowned wine professionals as “the most dramatically beautiful wine country in the world”, South Africa offers a climate similar to the Mediterranean with fresh winds and rain usually confined to winter months giving the best conditions for producing superb quality wines. The African continent has been home to vineyards [...]

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New World White Wine

12 December 2008
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The fourth-largest wine exporter in the world is Australia, with over 400 million litres a year to the international market. The first fleet to arrive on the continent in 1788 brought with them vine cuttings from South Africa and later classic French and Spanish grapes were imported in 1833. The arrival of free European settlers [...]

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Old World White Wine

12 December 2008
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Generally, Old World wines tend to pride themselves on the vine’s location and historical suitability (known in France as the concept of ‘Terroir’), whereas New World wines might blend grapes from a few locations to create the best bottle of wine. Today differences between Old and New world styles are hard to pick, but that [...]

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