Top Five New Zealand Wine Regions and What You Need to Know About Them

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Next up in our continuing, hopefully helpful series of wine region posts, New Zealand!

Can you name the top five wine regions in New Zealand?   That’s right!  From north to south, New Zealand’s five major wine-producing regions are Hawke’s Bay,  Martinborough, Marlborough, Waipara, and Central Otago.

Trivia tid-bit:  Central Otago is the southern

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15 Minutes to a Working Knowledge of Australian Wine

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Wow, what an insult to Australian wine.  Fifteen minutes, really?!  Devoted to an industry that is over 150 years old?!

Consider your alternative.  You could devote fifteen years of tasting and reading to the subject, and still not know all there is given the diversity of terroir and varietal expression in Australia’s wine

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Day Hike and Wine Pairing Tips: Mount Wellington, Tasmania

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Welcome back to Southern Latitudes Wines on-going, occasional series highlighting some of the best places we’ve discovered to drink outstanding Southern Hemisphere Wines. How about Hobart? As in Tasmania, Australia, site of one of our favorite mountains, 6545′ Mt. Wellington.

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