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Chateau Chunder, a wine revolution, directed by Stephen Oliver

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Label

Chateau Chunder, a wine revolution, directed by Stephen Oliver

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Chateau Chunder

Medium

electronic resource

Oclc number

849865514

Responsibility statement

directed by Stephen Oliver

Runtime

Series statement

Environmental studies in video

Sub title

a wine revolution

Summary

It's the 1970s and Australian wine is a joke - not for drinking, as Monty Python put it, but for 'laying down and avoiding'. The idea that a wine made 'Down Under' could ever challenge the august products of Burgundy or Tuscany has wine buffs and snobby sommeliers sniggering into their tasting spoons. But little more than 40 years later, Australian winemaking is leading the world. London merchants sell more wine from Australia than any other country, while the chastened French wine industry reluctantly takes note of how modern winemaking, and wine marketing, is really done. Chateau Chunder is both a social history of wine and wine drinking and the story of how a small group of enterprising Australian winemakers took on the world ... and won, changing the way that wine is made and marketed. Featuring winemakers, marketers, merchants, critics and drinkers including Bruce Tyrrell, James Halliday, Max Allen (Australian wine critics), Chris Hancock (Rosemount), Sir Les Patterson (Cultural Attache to Australia, a comical creation of Barry Humphries), Robert Parker (US wine critic), Oz Clarke and Jancis Robinson (UK wine critics)

Target audience

adult

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