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The nose knows - great aroma insights

Cracka Wines Adminstrator — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:50:36 GMT

The nose knows - great aroma insights

Does the idea of attempting to name all the different fruits in a glass of wine daunt you? Do you think it to be slightly silly when one wine can seem to show every aroma known to wine?

If you answered yes to either of these things then you are definitely not alone. Far from it. But there is hope, with this article from Master of Wine Debra Meiburg showing that by keeping it simple you too can talk wine like a pro.

Well worth a read here

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Max Allen on buying wines online

Cracka Wines Adminstrator — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:50:27 GMT

Max Allen on buying wines online

We're lucky enough to get plenty of positive press here at Cracka (thankyou lovely journalists out there) but it's not often that one of the wine writing fraternity applies the blow torch to us.

That's why it's actually rather nice to see this article from Max Allen dissecting us and some of the new online wine businesses out there. Obviously we don't agree with some of the conclusions (and Max doesn't seem to understand what a winery price is and what a recommended retail price is) but we're still glad to put forward a few wines and our side of the story.

An interesting read:
'Brave new world of wine retailing'

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Wet weather can't dampen 2012 vintage

Cracka Wines Adminstrator — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:52:39 GMT

Wet weather can't dampen 2012 vintage

Whilst it may not have been an ideal vintage for everyone, it seems that 2012 will go down as a good year for many Australian wine producers, with early reports indicating that many producers will have their finest vintage in some time (particularly in Coonawarra and the Barossa) and many others.

It was less happy in the Hunter and parts of NSW however, with unrelenting rain essentially washing out the red grape harvest in particular.

More information about the vintage in this article:
They may not have turned water into wine but the vintage is good

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What's in your wine?

Cracka Wines Adminstrator — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:27:46 GMT

What's in your wine?

Ever wondered why certain people react badly to wine - ie have an 'allergic' reaction after drinking wine? Well there is much more to it than just preservatives says Max Allen in this article, detailing a little bit more about what exactly goes into wine. Well worth a read:

Cracka in the news - The Australian (more good news)

Cracka Wines Adminstrator — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:57:32 GMT

Cracka in the news - The Australian (more kind words)

ONLINE booze merchants have experienced a boom as shoppers increasingly choose to have their celebration tipples delivered, rather than haul their cartons of beer and wine home.

Dean Taylor, chief executive of online merchant Cracka Wines, says his company's sales jumped by 175 per cent in the first week of December compared with the last week of November.

Read more on the Australian website

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Six year old receives a wine club invite...

Cracka Wines Adminstrator — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:00:56 GMT

A wine club invite for a 6yr old

BOYS as young as six were sent wine club application forms, after a children's magazine disclosed their personal details to a wine supplier.

Subscribers to K-Zone magazine, boys aged from six to 13, received the Cellarmasters wine club pamphlets in envelopes addressed to them.

Read more here:

(Ooh now this is a rather dodgy action indeed).

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Ailing wineries uncork the web

Cracka Wines Adminstrator — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:25:00 GMT

Ailing wineries uncork the web

According to a report in The Age this week, many of Australia's embattled
wineries are online in a response to the own label pressure being exerted by the supermarket chains.

We get a great plug in this article (thanks The Age) but there is still an important message in there that shouldn't be ignored - namely, that Australian wineries are hurting and the move into more 'own label' products is only going to hurt them more...

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Australia's wine export panel under fire

Cracka Wines Adminstrator — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:40:43 GMT

Australia's wine export panel under fire

Uniquely amongst many countries in the wine world, Australia has a rather regimented quality control system for all of it's export wines.

A quality control system that ensures that every wine that is to be exported must pass a tasting panel first, chiefly to ensure that everything is of saleable quality.

This system however has been criticised heavily of late, as a slew of top produces have taken aim at the technocratic and 'out of touch' nature of the panel itself.

The particularly catalyst for this action has been the increased incidence of critically regarded wines failing to gain export approval (such as this Jamsheed red) even though they've already lined up buyers for the product.

More details here:

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Australia's most expensive wine

Cracka Wines Adminstrator — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:58:32 GMT

Australia's most expensive wine

Penfolds have just this week officially launched their most expensive wine ever, a South Australian Shiraz Cabernet blend called the Bin 620 (named after the famous Bin 620 of 1966).

What is most interesting though is that the launch took place in Shanghai, not Australia, a nod to where Penfolds believe the market for this particular wine will be (which is clearly not Australia).

Angus tasted the wine recently and believes that it's quite an intriguing wine for Penfolds, built in a rather less obvious style than the quite overt style that Penfolds is famous for.

Read Angus' review of the new Penfolds Bin 620 Cabernet Shiraz

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Cracka Founder Shane Pettiona in Wealth Creator magazine

Cracka Wines Adminstrator — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:56:53 GMT

Cracka Founder Shane Pettiona in Wealth Creator magazine

One of our co-founders Shane Pettiona was recently featured in a great Wealth Creator magazine, talking about Cracka, wine and auctions.

Have a read of the full interview here

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