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PROVENANCE IS THE WORD!

very ten years or so a new buzzword appears in the wine industry, usually in a promotional sense. In the eighties we had “cold soak” a term relating to extending the fermentation period of wine on grape skins to provide additional savoury characters. For cool climate areas like Coonawarra that wasn’t a problem as rough and rugged Doug Bowen pointed out. “I call it just trying to get the f*#king

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