Melbourne’s credentials as great wine capital upheld

Melbourne used to be one of the Great Wine Capitals of the World: the network – club if you like – of wine-centric cities, established in 1996 by the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce. Its members now include Bilbao (for Rioja in Spain), Cape Town (for the Cape Winelands of South Africa), Mainz (for the Rheinhessen), Porto (for the Douro in Portugal), San Francisco (for the Napa Valley in the US), Valparaiso (for the Casablanca Valley in Chile), Mendoza (Argentina), and the aforementioned Bordeaux.