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East Meets West Australia at West

Australia: East Meets West at West Restaurant

 mywinepal  February 25, 2015

Australia is a big country, from east to west covering 4000 km, which in Canadian terms would be about the distance from Calgary to Quebec City.  As with Canada’s east and west coasts, there is a difference in climate, there is also in Australia.  This dinner, this evening we discovered the regional differences between Australia’s west coast – Margaret River…

Hollick Coonawarra

Welcome Hollick Wines to the Vancouver International Wine Festival 2015

 mywinepal  December 7, 2014  1 Comment on Welcome Hollick Wines to the Vancouver International Wine Festival 2015

A Brief History of Hollick Wines Hollick Wines is a small winery in Coonawarra, South Australia. Ian and Wendy Hollick purchased a piece of grazing land on the southern end of the Coonawarra district in 1974. This small block of land was one of the original allocations in the Coonawarra Fruit Colony which John Riddoch founded in 1890. Although predominantly…