This map of Australia on page 65 of the wine list from 3-Michelin Star ‘Core by Clare Smyth’ has bemused me for ages. I’ve never been, but lived vicariously through a friend who went during Covid lockdown; the food and experience was reportedly incredible.
Besides putting Perth about 900km too far north, the map of Western Australia seems to think an area of mostly arid desert around the size of Italy is all wine-country (if only!).
I sent an email about this years ago but – despite numerous revisions to the list – the map remains unchanged, and so does my minor irritation.
Still, always good to have Margaret River and The Great Southern represented on such a brilliant list!
by DrNerdlinger
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This map is so wrong, where do I even start?
I’m surprised Gareth let’s this go. Wtf is that map, he knows better. I didn’t notice the map when I was there back in 2019.
The famous wine growing region of South Burnett… Melbourne is certainly not inland and NORTH of the Yarra? Adelaide appears to be on the Eyre Peninsula?
I really hate this map.
Ah yes, those famous Hunter Valley winegrowing towns of Tamworth, Armidale, and Gunnedah
Tassie apparently has a hydroponic region in the sea. Huh. Who knew?
I wonder if they produce really brackish umami bombs there.
The book How to Drink Australian by Jane Lopes and Jonathan Ross is amazing. They’re great people and the book is seriously one of the best I’ve ever seen.
Melbourne, the Yarra valley and the mornington peninsula are in Gippsland for some reason.
I live in the Yarra valley and it’s great fun trying all the different Pinot noir, I’m slowly drinking my way up the Yarra River one winery at a time. And also Queensland doesn’t really do wine, I didn’t even realise they had any wine regions until this image
It’s definitely a stylistic approach to map making here. Do those places exist and make wine? Yes. Are the colour spots representative of where the wine is grown? Well it’s the right continent.