DECEMBER
2012
After more than 1200 wines and two years, the 100th edition of Wine Taste Weekly represents an opportune time to honour those estates that have performed at the very highest level. Announcing the inaugural Wine Taste Weekly Hall of Honour.
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2012
SALT
How many Queensland wineries could you name? Most locals might have difficulty listing more than a handful. It may come as a surprise that the sunshine state is now home to no less than 177 wineries.
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SPECTATOR
Trevor Mast, longstanding winemaker at Mount Langi Ghiran and legend of the Victorian wine industry in Australia passed away last night, following a five year battle with younger onset Alzheimer’s.
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SPECTATOR
A daring new initiative in Victoria’s Yarra Valley has a vision to change the way Australian wine is perceived. The brief of Thousand Candles is to create a landmark wine to raise the profile of Australian fine wine, not with shiraz or pinot noir, but with cabernet.
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2012
SPECTATOR
August
2012
STYLE
2012
WBM
While exploring France, Steve Webber and Leanne De Bortoli discovered that fine wine was made by understanding the land. “We realised we didn’t have an amazing understanding of what fine wine was…That was a revolution! We did a lot of soul searching in what fine wine was and what the Yarra could do.”
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WBM
Alice Springs may seem an unlikely place to produce one of Australia’s more important red winemakers. But if the Red Centre hadn’t been home to Sue Hodder, she would likely have never ended up in Coonawarra. And she would certainly have never had the spirit to transform the most fabled and historic estate of Australia’s other red centre, as Chief Winemaker at Wynns Coonawarra Estate.
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QANTAS THE AUSTRALIAN WAY
What makes a bottle worth such a figure? What does it really cost to make? If you set out to create the most expensive bottle in the country, what is the most you could pay for raw materials?
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QANTAS THE AUSTRALIAN WAY
The march of refinement in Australian white wines has left no variety untouched, but in the wake of the rise of new varieties there’s no question the quartet of chardonnay, sauvignon, riesling and semillon retain their monopoly on the upper echelons.
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