Australia Areas
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Australia Areas
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Centred on Adelaide - a beautiful, colonial town, regions vary from the industrial Riverland that produces over half the state`s wine – and a third of Australia`s indeed - to the traditional Barossa, Clare and Eden Valleys and, through cooler Adelaide Hills and Coonawarra through to McLaren Vale and Langhorne Creek. The range of terroirs and climates is great and ambition and technology see no...
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If South Australia is the engine room of Australian wine production, then Victoria is the boutique. It is a fraction of its former size – the end of the gold rush, the interruption of the Second World War and decline in the sales of fortified wine sales all contributed to that. Victoria also has a vast range of regions many of them climatically cool. There are mountains, coastal areas, rolling...
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The true glories of Western Australia are its whites. As a region it has grown enormously in recent years, not having such a significant history as Victoria or South Australia. The boom in Perth led medics and lawyers to set up boutique operations almost as hobbies and these, together with some medium sized companies like Leeuwin and Cullen, as well as Houghton, have driven the industry along a...
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A maritime climate characterises Tasmania – a sizeable island out in the southern ocean. Like Maine, if you don’t like the weather, wait a minute. The temperature is quite capable in summer of fluctuating between 30 and 15 degrees. As you might expect, sparkling wines and fresh, lighter table wines are the main produce. (CW 23/01/12)
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One of the first wine regions in Australia, the Hunter Valley in New South Wales was also one of the first high profile regions to establish itself in the mid-1980s when Australian wine reappeared in the UK after a long absence. It was soon overtaken by the South Australian behemoth and indeed that amorphous `Southeastern Australia` concept. Today hot and humid Hunter Valley is around 3% of...
