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Australia dominates Decanter Asia Wine Awards



Red Rhone Varietal International Trophy: Cave de Roquebrun, Seigneur d’Aupenac, St-Chinian-Roquebrun, Languedoc-Roussillon, France 2009.

 

Red Spanish Varietal International Trophy: 2009 Protos, Seleccion Finca el Grajo Viejo, Ribera del Duero, Spain.



Red Italian Varietal International Trophy: 2009 Marchesi Alfieri, Barbera d’Asti Superiore, Piedmont, Italy 2009.

Single-Varietal Red Best Value International Trophy: 2010 Finca el Origen, Gran Reserva Malbec, Uco Valley, Argentina.

Pinot Noir International Trophy: 2009 Tarras Vineyards, The Canyon Pinot Noir, Bendigo, Central Otago, New Zealand.

Red Blend International Trophy: 2009 Wynns Cabernet-Shiraz-Merlot, Coonawarra, South Australia.

Sweet International Trophy: 2005 Chateau Suduiraut, Sauternes, Bordeaux, France.

Sweet Fortified International Trophy: Non-vintage All Saints Estate, Rare Muscat, Rutherglen, Australia.

A special digital edition of Decanter featuring all of the international trophy winners has been available at the Apple Newsstand since Feb. 6.

Art and Wine

Italian painter Elisabetta Rogai, whose unique method involves painting with wine instead of conventional colors, launched 17 of her creations in Asia for the first time in the same week the Decanter trophies were announced. She has had many solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States.

Rogai, based in Florence, uses Tuscan wine with no other chemicals added, to produce captivating paintings that evolve into an ever-changing array of colors, expressions and feelings.

She has created a unique paint formula that prevents colors from fading. Wine ageing, which normally occurs over many years, takes only a few months on the canvas.

The difference between a freshly-painted artwork and the same painting half a year later is clearly visible — the textures change and the colors translate from young purples and cherry reds into more mature tones of amber, orange and brown.

Stephen Quinn writes about wine for a variety of publications in the region. From 1975 he was a journalist for two decades with the Bangkok Post, BBC-TV, The Guardian, ITN, the UK Press Association, TVNZ, the Middle East Broadcasting Center in Dubai and a range of regional newspapers in Australia. He became a journalism educator in 1996, but returned to journalism full time in 2011. He is based in Hong Kong and is the author of 17 books.

 

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