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The Australian wine world has taken to Twitter like a duck to you know what so here's the big list.
The 2006 Saint Emilion classification which was later scrapped by the French Court of Appeal has been reinstated.
All That Grand Cru Wine is not Worthless After All. In the real olden days, grape farmers had to deal with plagues of locusts, rampaging armies, and all manner of biblical-scale disasters. When things settled down in the 16th and 17th centuries, most of the European folks making wine got pretty complacent, until a little bug came along and wiped 98% of their vineyards off the face of the planet. Eventually everyone got over Phylloxera, and the wine world settled back into its groove, and for a while it seemed that the scourges of old might not continue into the modern era. Safe from locusts, boll weevils, and all manner...
Life Goes Better with Bordeaux Wine. Enjoy affordable Bordeaux with everyday meals, dinners, picnics, events and occasions. Bordeaux rose, white Bordeaux and red Bordeaux make every day an occasion. The site is part of a €2 million, or $US3 million, campaign by the Conseil Interprofessionel du Vin de Bordeaux that is aimed at lifting sales of the region's wines in the United States, where they have fallen sharply during the recession. The campaign aims to introduce casual drinkers to wines priced at less than $35.