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Viva AWIWA!
Isn’t that nice? They’re letting the girls have a go. And all by themselves, too, to make sure they win! The inaugural Australian Women in Wine Awards (AWIWA) are with us – and some mightn’t know what...
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Theresa’s Top Honour
“I felt so at the right place. I saw my mum and my uncle and they all said ‘Go away. Take some time off. Do whatever you want’. Nobody said ‘You have to do it’. None of the family said that. I had to...
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Dream Weaver
Geoff Weaver is a man of conviction. You’d have to be to ask one of Australia’s most famous winemakers for a job before you’d so much as crushed your first grape. Or to borrow, in the early ‘80s,...
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Maps & Legends
It doesn’t look like much – a tatty little paperback with smudges of colour seeping through the grazes of its cover – but there’s perhaps no book that’s had a greater influence on my life. It was a Big...
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Emma: The Full English
“Emma, your brains are not your asset. Your personality and your looks are your assets.” It’s hardly the advice you’re holding out for the day after a double magnum of ’79 Krug has persuaded you to...
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Sleight Of Shand
Tim Shand has an alter ego. There’s Tim: Offspring of two teachers, incisive, earnest looking – even a touch of the nerds about him. Logistics whizz; lob a few moving parts at him and he won’t flinch –...
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The Mount Mary Mantra
The see-saw fortunes of fad chasers can make for entertaining viewing, but in an age of flip-flop “leadership” and obsequiousness to “opinion- shapers”, it can be good to remember those who stick to...
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A Sense Of The Famiglia
It’s like synaesthesia. Whenever I hear the Vajra name or taste the wines, I see a riot of colour. It’s like drinking in the cheerful hues of the labels and stained-glass windows, or splashing through...
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A Glass With Jancis Robinson
Jancis through the good-looking glass: Robinson in Melbourne. Photo: Elizabeth Clancy It was an utter thrill to sit down for a chat with Jancis Robinson during her spring 2019 visit to Melbourne. She...
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A Tale of Two Wolves
Balance is a buzzword in wine, a sacred virtue all aspire to. But few know the meaning of balance like Alecia Moore. A performing artist, songwriter, mother and winemaker: all of these require...
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