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Report from – Australia Preview – September 5, 2007

The Aussies are coming.  The Aussies are coming.  In a few short weeks the folks from a land down under will be invading Toronto for the annual Australian Wine Tasting.  Now in truth the Ozes landed a long time ago and they never left, invading the LCBO with bottle after bottle of fruit-driven, bomby wines that over delivered with pepper and red fruit flavours.  Australia has literally changed the way we drink wine and re-introduced the world to Shiraz (syrah).  Today each winery that will be attending the show later this month, was allowed to put one bottle on the table … a bottle that best represented their winery.  In total there were about 60 wines to taste and they were broken down by region.  So let’s take a quick travel around Australia and see what’s tasting terrific … so far … (Read More)

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