Cool climate hotting up

With 330 leading wine scientists, academics, writers, winemakers and marketers from 12 different countries at one of the wine world’s most important events — the 8th International Cool Climate Symposium for Viticulture and Oenology — in Hobart a fortnight ago, the global spotlight was well and truly on Tasmania. Opening proceedings, the UK’s Jancis Robinson — author, TV presenter and the doyen of international wine commentators – declared “cool climate wines are hot”, reports The Mercury.