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Phylloxera
The Victorian Department of Primary Industries has announced a second round of vineyard surveys in Victoria, covering Ballarat, Macedon Ranges, Sunbury, Broadford, Kilmore, greater Geelong, and a large northern area extending from Cobram to Horsham.  The aim is to increase the number of regions within the Phylloxera Exclusion Zone (PEZ); if there is no evidence of phylloxera in the areas surveyed, it will enable growers and winemakers to move grape vine material and grapes into South Australia, New South Wales and those part of Victoria already designated as PEZs with a reduced regulatory burden.

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The journey of lagrein in Australia
In the 2006 edition of Jancis Robinson’s Oxford Companion to Wine (aka the world’s wine bible) she says that lagrein is a “red grape variety grown on only about 300ha in Alto Adige” in the far north of Italy, but makes no mention of plantings elsewhere.

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Exports to China
Check out the most recent figures from China continue to meet expectations and challenge belief.  They are all for the 12 months ending October 2011 (MAT).

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Rare Wines at Auction
Christie’s results for a fabulous sale of an amazing private collection held at Geneva in Switzerland on November 15 showed that the fine wine market is alive and well, sovereign debt issues notwithstanding.

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