In wine terms, there's been a bit of falling out of love between the Australian producers and British wine drinkers. It has been years since the Australians were pressured into taking the constant revolving discount route into the evil empires of the supermarket chains and they cannot extricate themselves from this sticky morass. It's ironic, since it was the introduction of their wines in the mid eighties that recruited so many people into wine drinking in the first place. But supermarket shoppers have been carefully trained by our masters and are now notoriously promiscuous when considering their purchases. Big business has conspired to turn the word loyalty into an oxymoron. But I digress.

Australia is a country with a diverse range of climate and soils, well suited somewhere to just about every grape grown.