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Another View of Australia’s Problem

An Australian exporter-importer says the semantics are wrong
Posted: Mar 29, 2010 11:56am ET

I recently had dinner with exporter-importer John Larchet, who said “The problem is we’re talking about Australian Chardonnay instead of Chardonnay from Australia.” That may seem like mere semantics, but I get his point. If you want Chardonnay for dinner, you probably don’t go wandering into the Australian section first. And that’s too bad. I taste more good Chardonnays from Australia today than ever before.

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