Taste sensation: The Real Review’s Top Wineries of Australia 2021 Tasting
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By Frances Mocnik
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After sniffing, swilling and sipping their way through more than 10,000 bottles of wine, respected independent wine reviewer
The Real Review has released its highly anticipated Top Wineries of Australia List for 2021. And you’re invited to join its inaugural series of consumer tasting sessions. More than 30 of Australia’s top wineries will showcase their wines at tasting events to be held in Sydney and Melbourne.
More than 30 of Australia’s top wineries will showcase their wines at the tasting events.
What do Hong Kong, Thailand and Russia have in common besides political dissent that has recently manifested in protest movements? Answer: mainland China was the largest source for tourism arrivals for each of them in 2019. The three destinations are far from being alone in having recorded considerable numbers of Chinese tourists crossing their borders before the coronavirus all but closed them, though, and they are not the only ones wondering.
And then there were none. It s hard to believe but just last year more than 16 million people - 4 million of them from overseas - visited pre-pandemic Sydney. It prompted a thought: surely that lot was onto something.
It also prompted pangs of what I may have been missing during these long, torturous months of the pandemic after having done my damnedest to escape the city and explore the rest of the state.
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Organisers of Sculpture by the Sea have abandoned plans to stage last year s delayed outdoor exhibition early this year, defeated by ongoing COVID-19 health concerns.
A smaller spin-off outdoor show of 17 works,
Sculpture Rocks, that was to have been staged on Sydney Harbour as part of Australia Day celebrations has also been postponed due to the latest outbreaks.
Sculpture by the Sea will not resurface until October following the COVID-19 cluster setback.
Credit:Steven Siewert
The show will now go ahead with the same line up of artists, plus two or three new guest artists, at its usual time this October, pandemic permitting.
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Organisers of Sculpture by the Sea have abandoned plans to stage last year s delayed outdoor exhibition early this year, defeated by ongoing COVID-19 health concerns.
A smaller spin-off outdoor show of 17 works,
Sculpture Rocks, that was to have been staged on Sydney Harbour as part of Australia Day celebrations has also been postponed due to the latest outbreaks.
Sculpture by the Sea will not resurface until October following the COVID-19 cluster setback.
Credit:Steven Siewert
The show will now go ahead with the same line up of artists, plus two or three new guest artists, at its usual time this October, pandemic permitting.