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With thousands of Australian residents along the east coast currently stuck in lockdown, a winery in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales is offering wine tasting kits to be delivered to your doorstep. Customers can choose from three wine tasting packages from Scarborough Wine Co, including the Offshoot Pack, Classic Pack or The Obsessive Pack. All three include 100mL bottles of all current release wines, a tasting mat, tasting notes to help guide you through the tasting and the opportunity to book a Zoom tutored tasting with a Cellar Door staff. Prices range from $45 and $60, with the most popular option being the classic tasting pack. ....
Photo: Parker Blain In 2020 we became picnic professionals, sourdough bakers and dedicated drinkers. Glou, a wine store and bar on Smith Street, is out to make the latter sustainable. The premise is simple: spend $8 on a reusable bottle (500ml, one litre or two litres); fill it with Australian biodynamic and organic wines on tap; and repeat (or return your bottle for a $4 rebate). You can also plant yourself on one of 18 seats and drink wine by the glass for $8 with snacks from Mono-XO up the road. Glou was an idea that popped up during lockdown as a way to sell wine and pay more respect to the effort that goes into producing wine in a sustainable way, says Ron Davis (ex-Samuel Pepys, Le Pont Wine Store), who owns Glou alongside partner Rahel Goldmann (ex-Hell of the North, IDES). ....