Our approach to Australian wine – and history – needs to change
There is the obstinate belief that Australian wines are all cheap and cheerful fruit bombs. Why?
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Nina Caplan
Nina Caplan is the 218 and 214 Fortnum & Mason Drink Writer of the Year and the 214 Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year for her columns on drink in the New Statesman, and the author of The Wandering Vine: Wine, The Romans and Me, published by Bloomsbury.
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