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| | Wine X Magazine - Australia/New Zealand |
 | | This scene has been repeated in my professional life with monotonous regularity, and highlights just how fiercely parochial we are about our own wine industry, and how reluctant we can be to contemplate the possibility that other countries are capable of producing half-way decent booze. |
 | | This attitude is especially puzzling when one considers just how fond we are of other imported goods like cars, televisions, computers, furniture, white goods, gourmet foods, fashion etc etc. However, it seems when it comes to wine, for many Australians the wine world begins in the Yarra Valley and ends in the Margaret River. |
 | | This is particularly true in the 'old world' powerhouses of France and Italy, where the realisation that the 'new world' was eating into their markets proved to be the catalyst for a winemaking renaissance. |
| www.winexwired.com /winexaus/issueone/bigwineworld.htm (761 words) |
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