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Visiting Australia? Discover our main wine states and regions
Australian wine regions
Australia is a large country - Margaret River is further from the Hunter Valley than Jerez in Spain is from Tokaji in Hungary - so, despite the distinctive national approach to wine, Australian wines are not all the same. The wines of Margaret River and of the Hunter Valley differ as much as sherry and tokay do. The three most important wine-producing states are South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. As well as bulk production, they each have specific premium wine regions.
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REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT ARCHIVE |
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Croatia
Wines and producers
The cooler and more fertile inland area produces mainly white wine (95 percent), especially from the dull but productive and undemanding laski rizling, or welschriesling, whereas 70 percent of coastal production is red wine. The inland region also produces fruity, straw-colored Kutjevacka gra'sevina from Kutjevo, some quite respectable gewuerztraminer, pinot blanc, sauvignon blanc, Johannisberg or Rhine riesling, and even muscat ottonel, especially from the slopes of Baranja.
Interesting reds from the coast include wines from the plavac mali vine. Dinga 'c and postup from the Peljesac Peninsula are highly regarded--the full international potential of these two wines, as well as of wine from the Dalmatian semillon grape, is yet to be fully explored. Other promising wines include those made on the Istrian peninsula from Italian refosco, as well as cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malvazija (red malvasia), gamay and pinot noir. The island wines also have potential, espe-cially the whites, once oxidation problems are recognized and overcome. Bolski Plavac from Brac and faros from Hvar seem, at the moment, the most likely to repay development.
More than half of Croatia's wines are allowed a geographical appellation. Additional and more valuable quality control is applied in the form of a Buxbaum system, based on tastings and administered by a wine-grading subcommission. Most wine production involves a combination of relatively modern methods and antiquated, but often ingeniously modified, equipment.
From "Encyclopedia of Wine"
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