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BBC – Chateau Chunder When Australian Wine Changed the World (2012)

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BBC – Chateau Chunder: When Australian Wine Changed the World (2012)
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Category: Tutorial

It’s the 1970s and Australian wine is a joke – not for drinking, as Monty Python put it, but for ‘laying down and avoiding’. The idea that a wine made Down Under could ever challenge the august products of Burgundy or Tuscany has wine buffs and snobby sommeliers sniggering into their tasting spoons. But little more than 40 years later, Australian winemaking is leading the world. London merchants sell more wine from Australia than from any other country, while the chastened French wine industry reluctantly take note of how modern winemaking – and wine marketing – is really done. [Read more…]

BBC – Mountain with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (2018)

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BBC – Mountain with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (2018)
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Category: Documentaries


Jaw-dropping exploration of our obsessions with high places and how they have come to capture our imagination. Only three centuries ago, climbing a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. The idea scarcely existed that wild landscapes might hold any sort of attraction. Peaks were places of peril, not beauty. Why, then, are we now drawn to mountains? Filmed by the world’s leading high-altitude cinematographers and set to a specially curated musical performance by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Mountain captures the fierce beauty of some of the world’s most treacherous landscapes and the awe they inspire. [Read more…]