A vineyard at Mewstone in Tasmania / Photo courtesy of Mewstone
Its isolation is what makes Tasmania so special. The rugged island state, roughly the size of Ohio and 150 miles off the southeast coast of Australia, is a food and wine lover’s paradise.
In fact, wine is the jewel in Tasmania’s crown. Australia’s coolest-climate winegrowing region, Tassie can produce precise, complex traditional-method bubbly; slinky, sappy Pinot Noir; exuberant, saline Chardonnay; and fleshy yet delicate Riesling. For more than four decades, the island has attracted investment from large-scale wine businesses around the globe, as well as an increasing number of small, quality-focused grower-winemakers.
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If anyone needs a big drink and a knees-up right now, it’s the brewing industry. Sure, off-trade beer & cider sales have spiked by £1.2bn (36.5%) and the supers have shifted an extra 514.7 million (32.1%) litres [Kantar 52 w/e 21 February 2021]. But that’s a mere sip when compared with the damage Covid has inflicted on pub beer sales, which plunged 56% and cost publicans £7.8bn [BBPA].
For brewers, it’s been the perfect storm. The collapse of the pub trade was followed by a spike in packaging material prices, as brewers scrabbled to pour beer originally destined for hospitality into new retail packs. Even BrewDog, the craft beer pioneer that had grown into a global empire with an estimated value of £1.5bn after being set up by two friends in 2007, was suddenly facing ruin.
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9th February, 2021 by Christian Smith
As Valentine’s Day is now just around the corner, we’ve got you covered with our top 10 list of last-minute gifts to delight the wine lover in your life, whether you’re celebrating with someone you love or going solo this year.
1. An elegant yet spill-proof wine glass
Available to buy from Amazon, these spill-proof wine glasses will ensure that even the clumsiest of drinkers can enjoy their wine stress-free this Valentine’s Day. Gesticulate all you want – even the most over-enthusiastic of elbows will struggle to send the wine tumbling from this clever tumbler.
10 of the best Aussie sparkling wines to welcome 2021
Cathy Gowdie
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After all that 2020 has brought us, this year s New Year s Eve toast deserves to be a special one. Few of us will pop the cork on a $265 House of Arras E.J. Carr Late Disgorged 2004, recently named the world s top sparkling by Decanter magazine in the UK, but the win shows how Australian sparkling wines are challenging France s finest – and, increasingly, have price tags to match.
Wine writer and publisher Tyson Stelzer is the author of a series of internationally acclaimed champagne and sparkling guides. For his Australian Sparkling Report 2020 he reviewed more than 240 wines, finding, as in previous editions, that Tasmania rules the roost when it comes to Champagne-style sparklings.