The Great Success Of Australian Wines

Australia maintains a wide range of biodiversity. It is a land of strange marsupials, including kangaroos, koalas, emus, possums and some of the most venomous snakes in the world.

The continent with a vast geography and variations in climatic conditions, ranges from tropical rainforest to snow-capped mountains and vast desert areas. This large quantity of soil and soil diversity, just like Crocodile Dundee’s strange accent and cultural practices, has only helped to add to the lure and mystique of Australian wines.

In 1788 the British crown created the penal colony of New South Wales as a way to relieve stress in already overcrowded British and American colonial prisons.

Most people eventually learned about Australia’s gift of wine by the great success of a variety of Penfolds Grange vintages of Shiraz, include winning first prize at the Wine Olympics in 1971, and the 1990 Vintage Red Wine of the Year the winery won from the Wine Spectator magazine.

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