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This is the final, surprising, article (for now!) in Walter's series on Italian varieties in Australia. See also Australia's ongoing infatuation with Italy and Pizzini Nebbiolo – an Australian vertical

Fine wine is said to be the unique combination of soil, vine and climate resulting in an original, inimitable wine. But last year during 21st Century Vino, a London tasting and series of seminars on the future of Italian varieties in Australia that I co-hosted, that notion was turned completely upside down when I tasted a wine from Australia I had never heard of before: Best’s Great Western...