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The Wine Messenger

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On October 20, 1800, the largest scientific mission ever left le Havre for Australia aboard the Geographe. Napoleon was attempting to restore the scientific prestige of France; the expedition had no political agenda. Captain Thomas Baudin and his second in command, Alexandre Le Bas, explored South and Western Australia. They mapped the country with such precision that their charts are still valid today! They also brought back plants and animals and offered them to Josephine (Napoleon's wife)...

- While it is true that the greatest strides in Australian winemaking have come in the last 30 years or so, commercial viticulture began as early as the 1820s and has developed uninterrupted ever since. The majority of the great Region are in the southeastern area of the continent, with the Barossa Valley, Claire Valley, McLaren Vale, and Coonawarra in South Australia, the Yarra Yarra Velley and Pyrenees in Victoria and the Upper and Lower Hunter Valleys in New South Wales. Many of the wines from...