Those places, however, are doing it tough under the current circumstances. Part of that comes from the flood of heavily discounted New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc being offloaded over here to cut down the wine lake over there.
One wonders what the Kiwi contingent would say if, for example, Australian producers started selling government-subsidised wine into New Zealand (or elsewhere) at a price below the actual cost of production.
Anything like that would run against all sorts of international agreements, of course, but if it was done as part of, say, a systematic rearrangement of water arrangements in the Murray Darling basin (sell off the wine and restructure the industry, that sort of thing), but if it did I suspect I'd be able to hear the howls of protest from across The Ditch down at Bowen's Front Beach.
Call me nationalist and jingoistic if you like, but if signing up for allforonewine.com.au will help the places I go to for my interesting supply of wines to survive, it's a no-brainer.
