Pop in to a pop-up cellar door

Pop in to a pop-up cellar door

So first we had David Bowley’s pop-up winery in Adelaide, featured in this column three weeks ago and wrapping up today, and now we have a pop-up cellar door in the heart of Perth’s financial district, and a touring mob of Hunter Valley winemakers about to embark on an east coast odyssey of pop-up wine bars. Talk about tapping the zeitgeist,writes Max Allen in his Weekend Australian column.

Moorilla vineyard stomping ground revisited

It was 50 years ago, in 1962, that Tasmanian winemaking pioneer Claudio Alcorso made his first vintage at Moorilla Vineyard, north of Hobart. Claudio, an Italian immigrant, believed that fine wines could be made in the cooler climate, bucking widely held opinions that wine could only be made in places like South Australia, reports ABC Hobart.

Higher prices to win drinkers – priceless

How much would you pay for Jacob’s Creek and would you confidently turn up to a dinner party with a bottle of it under your arm? According to global wine and spirits maker Pernod Ricard, which owns the brand as well as a string of top-selling spirits such as Chivas and Absolut, the answers are up to $20 a bottle and a resounding ‘yes’ as the wine shakes loose its reputation as a cheap and cheerful label as it sets out to become an international premium wine, writes Eli Greenblat in Sydney Morning Herald.

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