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$86.3 million celebration for NSW Wines
Media Release Last night saw the Mistletoe Wines 2009 Reserve Chardonnay crowned the 2011 Citibank NSW Wine of the Year in front of the who’s who of the wine industry at the Citibank NSW Wine Awards Presentation Dinner at Guillaume at Bennelong in Sydney. Those who attended also heard from special guest the NSW Minister […]
Beelgara Estate joins the elite
Media Release Beelgara Estate joins the elite of premium Australian Winemakers Beelgara Estate is one of the oldest wineries in the Riverina grape growing district of Australia, having been established in 1930. Being a top twenty Australian winery, Beelgara has established an enviable reputation amongst industry analysts, having just recorded three consecutive years of incremental […]
New Gen Hunter Valley | Putting the New into NSW Wine Awards
Media Release: Tonight was a big night for the New Generation Hunter Valley winemakers, with the 2011 Citibank NSW Wine of the Year and Trophy for Best Young Chardonnay going to Mistletoe Wines 2009 Reserve Chardonnay ($40), made by Nick “Doggy” Paterson – one of the 6 not-so-usual suspects! Andrew “Thommo” Thomas was not far […]
Beijing’s Weekend Market Offers Genuine Local Treasures
Panjiayuan weekend market is one of the best places to shop in China. Its history goes back to when traders from remote provinces brought goods old and new from all over China each weekend to sell and trade. It became famous for its antiques, as people would bring in old pieces of ceramics, furniture, jewelry […]
Beijing’s Weekend Market Offers Genuine Local Treasures
Panjiayuan weekend market is one of the best places to shop in China. Its history goes back to when traders from remote provinces brought goods old and new from all over China each weekend to sell and trade. It became famous for its antiques, as people would bring in old pieces of ceramics, furniture, jewelry […]
Aurora Antarctica 2012/13 brochure out now
Antarctica 2012/2013 10% early bird discount, book today!* Aurora Expeditions are delighted to release their 2012/2013 Antarctica brochure.With increased capacity, this season is set to be our biggest and best yet! NEW FOR 2012/2013 * Choice of two ships – Polar Pioneer & Akademik Shokalskiy […]
STRUTH! Oktoberfest Carnage
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that if you thought patrons at this year’s Oktoberfest in Munich were pretty good at tossing down the amber stuff, they were anything than remiss when it came to getting stuck into the tucker as well. […]
PRISON-BREAK EARNS CONVICT A PARDON
David Ellis OUR early colonial governors usually gave convicts a ticket of leave as a reward for good behaviour, not one for breaking out of prison. But such was the case with notorious Western Australia bushranger and serial jail-breaker, Joseph “Moondyne Joe” Johns. Joe earned himself ten-years in England for stealing some bread, bacon and […]
FLOODING RAINS BRING OUT THE INNOVATIVE
SEAFOODS and poultry go particularlywell with this Sauvignon Blanc. Wc17Oct11 David Ellis THE 2011 vintage in South-eastern Australia can best be summed up in three words, wet, wet, wet, with some vineyards totally inundated by flood waters, areas reporting rains of six or eight times their normal for summer – and still others drenched with […]
TROOPSHIP’S DEATH A MINEFIELD OF STUPIDITY
David Ellis WITH increasing Japanese activity in the South Pacific in late 1942, America had urgent need to bolster its base on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu,) where it was readying for a massive assault on Japanese-occupied Guadalcanal. And the quickest way to get its troops there was to […]
