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Since its inception, Mount Avoca has always sought to champion a clean and green ethos. Matthew Barry, our owner, had originally wished to take an organic and biodynamic approach, not only due to his father pioneering advocacy in pesticide reduction,...
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In the early 1990s, viognier became one of the world’s most fashionable and distinctive white grape varieties. This is astounding given that just decades earlier it had been on the verge of disappearing from the face of the earth completely....
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Although it’s a relative newcomer to the Australian wine scene, Tempranillo is the third-most-planted grape in the world. As international varieties go, it’s a pretty big deal. At Mount Avoca we’ve been working with this delightful Spanish grape for a...
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For some, mindfulness is a tried-and-tested method of finding peace among our frenzied lives. For others, it's nothing more than a modern buzzword. And for us? Well, we think mindfulness is actually pretty similar to tasting wine, which we've been doing for what feels like forever – or fifty years, at least.
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This article is the first in our organic series, in which we deepdive into how organic wine differs from conventional wine.
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