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Making Australian merlot from ‘new’ French clones and Malbec with ‘new’ Argentine clones | 40ha site | explore #winesky on bluesky | 🔞

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Christina Pickard 🇺🇸 is currently visiting Australia | As she explored the Limestone Coast wine regions, we shared our work with Merlot clones, what makes our lesser known wine region tick and new releases of our wines that are available in the USA instagram.com/christinakpick…

Christina Pickard 🇺🇸 is currently visiting Australia | As she explored the Limestone Coast wine regions, we shared our work with Merlot clones, what makes our lesser known wine region tick and new releases of our wines that are available in the USA 

instagram.com/christinakpick…
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Dr Liz Reed Liz Reed 🦇🦴🦉🐀🐩 sharing the wonders of the World Heritage Listed Naracoorte Caves with visiting USA wine professionals as they explore the Wrattonbully wine region during their “HOW TO DRINK AUSTRALIAN” tour with Jane and Jon of Legend Australian Wine Imports

Dr Liz Reed <a href="/LizReed_palaeo/">Liz Reed 🦇🦴🦉🐀🐩</a> sharing the wonders of the World Heritage Listed Naracoorte Caves with visiting USA wine professionals as they explore the Wrattonbully wine region during their “HOW TO DRINK AUSTRALIAN” tour 

with Jane and Jon of
Legend Australian Wine Imports
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Applications for 2025 Bordeaux Mentor Week, September 22-27, now open! Winner of Best Education & Knowledge Sharing V d’Or. janeanson.com/bordeaux-mento…

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Haven’t seen Australian wine featured in this bank’s report for quite a while and it’s the first time I’ve seen Wrattonbully recognised for its premium wine production in the cluster of wine regions for export production #aussiewine anz.com.au/content/dam/an…

Haven’t seen Australian wine featured in this bank’s report for quite a while and it’s the first time I’ve seen Wrattonbully recognised for its premium wine production in the cluster of wine regions for export production #aussiewine 
anz.com.au/content/dam/an…
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OMG! This is ballistically good juice. Rich,ripe,bursting with blue, black and red fruits. Lifted violets. Soft tannins. Years left. The nose screams Oz. FAN.TAS.TIC. Why did I not buy more. Stunning 😍 Colleen |

OMG!
This is ballistically good juice.
Rich,ripe,bursting with blue, black and red fruits. Lifted violets. Soft tannins. Years left.
The nose screams Oz.
FAN.TAS.TIC. 
Why did I not buy more.
Stunning  😍 
<a href="/merite_wines/">Colleen |</a>
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You plant some vines, wait several years until they’re mature, make a wine with every decision bearing the weight of long term cellarability in order to prove Australian Merlot can now be that good, you wait decades and someone opens a 10 year old bottle and writes this on Vivino

You plant some vines, wait several years until they’re mature, make a wine with every decision bearing the weight of long term cellarability in order to prove Australian Merlot can now be that good, you wait decades and someone opens a 10 year old bottle and writes this on Vivino
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Verve Wine 🇺🇸 are featuring Australian wine this month including MERITE WINES #aussiewine vervewine.com sf.vervewine.com/collections/so…

Verve Wine 🇺🇸 are featuring 
Australian wine this month 
including MERITE WINES 
#aussiewine   vervewine.com 

sf.vervewine.com/collections/so…
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There is no word in the French language for ‘winemaker’, and in many places when you travel in the ‘old world’ you discover that many wine producers do not accept that they ‘make’ the wine. Read the full article by Huon Hooke. hubs.ly/Q03h8bGc0

There is no word in the French language for ‘winemaker’, and in many places when you travel in the ‘old world’ you discover that many wine producers do not accept that they ‘make’ the wine.

Read the full article by Huon Hooke.

hubs.ly/Q03h8bGc0
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This vintage our eldest is working a vintage at a Coonawarra winery before heading off to uni…. and he sent me this #coonawarra

This vintage our eldest is working a vintage at a Coonawarra winery before heading off to uni…. and he sent me this #coonawarra
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Tonight’s sunset | An even better photo | such a calm dry ripening period in the Limestone Coast wine regions for vintage 2025 #touchwood #coonawarra #padthaway #wrattonbully #robe #mountbenson #mountgambier

Tonight’s sunset | An even better photo | such a calm dry ripening period in the Limestone Coast wine regions for vintage 2025 #touchwood 
#coonawarra #padthaway #wrattonbully #robe #mountbenson #mountgambier
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Sure to affect Vintage 2026 wine grapes as rainfall currently not replenishing vines (allowing them to store carbs etc over winter) essential to even spring burst and fruitfulness next year. Via Selina Green 🎙 abc.net.au/news/2025-05-0…

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"Former Winemaker Of Top Merlot Wine Is Now Making A 100% Merlot In An Unexpected Place" via Forbes forbes.com/sites/cathrine… #wine #forbes #damewine

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A wine from Wrattonbully in the Limestone Coast has won BOTH “Wine of the Year Australian” and “ Cabernet Sauvignon of the Year” at the Sommeliers Choice Awards 🇺🇸 Fantastic for us but also a great win for Australian Cabernet Sauvignon sommelierschoiceawards.com Selina Green 🎙

A wine from Wrattonbully in the Limestone Coast has won BOTH
“Wine of the Year Australian” and  
“ Cabernet Sauvignon of the Year”
at the Sommeliers Choice Awards 🇺🇸

Fantastic for us but also a great win for Australian Cabernet Sauvignon
sommelierschoiceawards.com
 <a href="/SelinaGreen5290/">Selina Green 🎙</a>
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“It seems like merlot is having a moment... Yes, indeed. Thoughtful winemaking and new clones are the key drivers of the current wave of this polished red.” Peter Bourne in this month’s Qantas Inflight Magazine

“It seems like merlot is having a moment... Yes, indeed. Thoughtful winemaking and new clones are the key drivers of the current wave of this polished red.” 

Peter Bourne in this month’s Qantas Inflight Magazine