AN amateur wine group paid a record €57,000 ($76,000) for a 237-year-old bottle of wine from France`s eastern Jura region at a local wine festival auction.
Can a wine really have notes of chocolate, truffle and violets? Can wines be feminine, pretentious or cheeky? Can wines express anything? Or, more philosophically, are the senses of taste and smell as structured as sight?
FOSTERS wine chief recently raided Coles liquor outlets, buying as much Penfolds 389 as he could as part of its campaign to protect his brands from retailer discounts.
Ian Henderson says the unusual micro-climate on his Granite Belt vineyard at Ballandean means his grapes can be picked in the dead of winter, several months after the last fruit in the country has been harvested.
