09
Oct
2007
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Category: On the Road with the Grape Guy
This year the Australian Tasting held in Toronto wanted to highlight the regions of Australia as well as the wine – putting the focus on where the wine comes from and showing the distinct differences the wine of certain regions have. Australia breaks itself in 63 wine regions within their 7 territories: Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory and Tasmania. Only the Northern Territory has no definable wine regions (or wineries) and Queensland had no representation at the show; while South Australia, with its 17 regions, had the most representation (35). Surprisingly, Victoria, with its 21 regions, had only 8 wineries to represent it. Not surprising is that most of my selections come from South Australia (11) with one each from Victoria and Western Australia; proving that if you send the most, you get the most ... (Read more)
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02
Oct
2007
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If I asked you to name the top 5 largest wine producers in the Southern Hemisphere I’d bet you the farm you wouldn’t get all 5. You’d probably come up with Australia (no.2), maybe Chile (no.3) and South Africa (no.4). You might be surprised to find out the number one spot belongs to Argentina – if you think about Argentina at all and if you did you didn’t think it was number one. But I’d be really surprised if you guessed the number five slot. Well, from the title of this tasting I bet you’ve figured it out; but would you have guessed it had I not been attending a Brazilian wine tasting? I didn’t think so.
Currently Brazil has about 900 wineries and 87,000 hectares under vine – it truly is enough to boggle the mind … Brazil? The land of diminishing rain forests and expanding cattle herds; the land that exported the idea for the smoothest waxing job in the world makes wine … who’d a thunk it? But then again it seems every country in the world makes wine in one form or another; the real question is: do they make good wine? And if so, how do I put my hands on some? ... (Read more)
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