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Wine tasting season starts in earnest in September and one of the highlights will be an evening in the Yarra Valley, open to consumers.

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Tag rugby and Australian wine. In one place. Fair dinkum.

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Wine of the week is a devilishly good bubbly from Tasmania.

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Australian “icons” on sale from The Corkscrew in Dublin.

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I’ve tried most of the Adams family; the girls Semillon, Pinot Gris and Riesling and the boys, Cabernet-Shiraz, The Fergus (a GSM Rhône blend) and now for the Shiraz, available from Tesco (€14.05).

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Three of my picks from last week’s Barossa evening with Wine Australia.

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This week’s wine of the week hails from Margaret River in Western Austrlia. Fortuantely, you don’t have to travel that far for it. It’s available in Tesco for €12.49.

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What to get that wine buff of yours for Christmas? Inside three excellent ideas from Wine Australia.

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My intentions were honorable, simply to poke my head in to say hello John Wilson and John McDonnell. However, the road to home is paved with good intentions and when I saw the range of eclectic styles, flavors and prices John had picked, I had to stick around a little longer than intended. Inside, some of my highlights.

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Riesling from South Australia’s Clare Valley.

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