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What more could you wish for this Christmas than great friends, family and wine? Our families know that making us happy is as simple as finding a great Riesling for a gift, and the Knappstein Hand Picked Riesling certainly hits the spot.

When Christmas dinner comes round Danny suggests you could match that baked ham with the Bay of Fires Pinot Noir. Yum! And when your wine gets called one of the top 10 in the world you might feel all your Christmases have come at once, just like the happy boys and girls from Schild Estate.

This week’s recommendations are:

• Knappstein Hand Picked Riesling 2010 ($16-$20)
• Bay of Fires Pinot Noir 2009 ($28-$30)
• Schild Estate Shiraz 2008 ($18-20)

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We are also super excited to announce the brand new Wine Week Radio podcast!

You can subscribe to the Wine Week Radio podcast via iTunes and every week we’ll have a new episode where we look at what’s happening in the wine industry.

Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny

This week Danny, Brad and Caroline talk about the renaming of Australia’s Wine and Brandy corporation to Wine Australia, inbetween talking about the goings on in the wine world this week.

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Some people put a lot of emphasis on the colour of wine. Certainly the Wolf Blass name is linked with colour, and this week we have a look at one of their Grey Label wines that impressed us at a recent tasting.

We hope that Oprah’s visitors to the Tyrrell’s cellar door this week loved the great Hunter white Semillon as much as we do! And rounding out the week we look at a dry Rosé from Port Philip estate that is very light pink.

This week’s recommendations are:

• Wolf Blass Grey Label Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 ($27-$30)
• Tyrrell’s WInes Belford Semillon 2005 ($22-$25)
• Port Philip Estate Salasso Rosé ($18-20)

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We are also super excited to announce the brand new Wine Week Radio podcast!

You can subscribe to the Wine Week Radio podcast via iTunes and every week we’ll have a new episode where we look at what’s happening in the wine industry.

Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny

This week Danny, Brad and Caroline talk about what Oprah might be doing when visiting Australia, inbetween talking about the goings on in the wine world this week.

Download episode 17 of the Wine Week Radio Podcast
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Follow the Wine Week Radio podcasters on twitter: @WineWeek (Danny & Brad), @bellabacchante (Caroline).

After a massive episode to celebrate our 200th last week, it’s time to get back to reality. So instead of wines costing up to a couple of thousand dollars, this week we will try and keep things a bit more approachable.

The three wines come from Yelland & Papps, Andrew Thomas Wines and Wirra Wirra and we’d be happy opening any one of them for a little celebration.

This week’s recommendations are:

• Yelland & Papps Delight Grenache Shiraz 2009 ($18-$20)
• Andrew Thomas Braemore Semillon 2010 ($25-$27)
• Wirra Wirra Scrubby Rise Shiraz Blend 2009 ($13-17)

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We are also super excited to announce the brand new Wine Week Radio podcast!

You can subscribe to the Wine Week Radio podcast via iTunes and every week we’ll have a new episode where we look at what’s happening in the wine industry.

Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny