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• Premium Fresh Seafood

  07-12-2016 11:00
  Those who appreciate quality seafood and service know all about Christie’s Seafood. Every day – except Christmas Day – it’s sharing Australasia’s finest fresh and live seafood with everyone at the world-famous Sydney Fish Market. But if battling the horde of shopping fans and keen foodies at the fish market is not your ideal way to spend a Saturday morning, you can enjoy the same quality and premium selection here. Fresh fish, shellfish, oysters, lobsters, prawns an
  
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• Sydney Pizza Lovers Alert: The Famous Christmas Pizza Giving the Gift of Shelter

  07-12-2016 06:38
  **Available Fratelli Fresh Sydney unit 31st DecemberLevel 5 Westfield Sydney CBD & World Square Shopping Centre George St
   
   Fratelli Famous Pizzeria has added a limited-edition, black-crusted Christmas pizza to its menu for the duration of December to raise money for international disaster relief charity, ShelterBox.
  $1 from every large Famous Christmas pizza sold will be donated to ShelterBox, which provides temporary shelter and lifesaving supplies to displaced families, includi
  
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• Wine industry conference alliance to continue

  07-12-2016 01:17
  The Winemakers’ Federation of Australia (WFA) and the Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference Inc. (AWITC) announced today that they will continue their partnership to deliver a combined business and technical conference for the Australian wine industry in Adelaide in July 2019. This announcement follows the very successful alignment of the 16th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference and WFA’s Outlook Conference in July 2016.
  
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• Tim James: on the significance of fashion in wine

  07-12-2016 01:17
  Fashion in wine is a slippery concept. The first tricky element is the difference between fashionability and long-term trends – perhaps there is none except for the degree of endurance. This is much more of a problem for wine-growers than wine-marketers, of course, because planting a vineyard is a costly business, and it takes some three years for a vineyard to become productive. Should a grower now, for example, rip out the pinotage and plant fashionable grenache or cinsaut?
  
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• Pinot takes centre stage at NZ annual tasting

  07-12-2016 01:17
  Pinot Noir will be the focus at January’s New Zealand Annual Trade tasting at Lindley Hall, London, New Zealand Winegrowers has announced. he announcement of what will be one of the first major London tasting of 2017 comes as new figures from New Zealand Winegrowers’ Export Report reveal that Pinot Noir exports to the UK are up 10% (October MAT), revealing an increased appetite and opportunity for the variety in the UK market. New Zealand wine exports reached a record high of $1.54 b
  
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• Pinot Gris Virus in More Napa Vineyards

  07-12-2016 01:17
  Grapevine Pinot Gris virus (GPGV) has been detected in vineyards in 14 locations in Napa County, but not in other California vineyard locations to date, based on initial findings from a statewide survey started in 2016 and funded through an American Vineyard Foundation research grant. These findings and an update on GPGV were presented by Dr. Maher Al Rwahnih, diagnostic and research lab director at Foundation Plant Services (FPS) at the University of California, Davis, during a day-long extensi
  
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• It’s been a great vintage!

  07-12-2016 01:17
  Ken Helm stands down as Chairman of Canberra International Riesling Challenge after 16 years. After 16 years the founding Chairman of the Canberra International Riesling Challenge (CIRC), Ken Helm AM has stepped down from the role having led and developed the Challenge since its inception. Ken will remain on the CIRC Board, ensuring that his extensive knowledge of the event and the wine industry is not lost to the Challenge. “The CIRC is now bigger than one person and is internationally re
  
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• Fast online liquor delivery service launched in Hamilton

  07-12-2016 01:17
  Alcohol can now be delivered to a Hamilton doorstep in an hour with a few mouse clicks. Divneet? Bindra came up with the idea for Brewbound, his online alcohol delivery service, while working at his family-owned liquor store. Like clothes, groceries and late-night pizza cravings, the 20 year old thought there just might be a demand. He noticed most liquor delivery services in New Zealand took a couple of days and he wanted to push the on-demand boundaries. "I noticed lots of different people sto
  
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• Cheap wine is not a concern

  07-12-2016 01:17
  Have you ever seen some seriously cheap bottles of wine at major supermarket retailers and wondered how smaller vineyards survive in a market where there is such disparity? Luckily for many winemakers in the Goulburn Valley, cheaper wines do not seem to be hurting their business. Colbinabbin’s Whistling Eagle Vineyard owner Ian Rathjen said low-cost bottles sold at Coles and Woolworths liquor stores were of no consequence to him because he was not competing in the same market.
  
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• Adelaide Uni looks to expand winery

  07-12-2016 01:17
  The university has flagged plans to more than double the size of its training winery, which is already the biggest of its kind in Australia. The expansion plan includes space for a distillery and a small brewery. Professor of Oenology and director of the ARC Training Centre for Innovative Wine Production Vladimir Jiranek said the University of Adelaide’s winemaking degree touched on distilled beverages as an elective subject. The existing winery, opened in 1996, has been the centrepiece of
  
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