My Australian wine is bottled in........

[Old Hack]

We drove around Aus in 2002/2003 and at the end, we went to the Barossa valley and partook in some wine tasting. I was partial to a particular vinyard (even at home), so decided to buy a few cases. Promptly loaded up the kombi with the wine, and asked how to prepare it for shipping. I was told, quite abruptly, well, you can't, it would spoil the wine. I was quite put out, to be honest. But the next 4 weeks were a fairly drunken affair, made worse by my wife carrying our first baby, which meant I had to drink it all on my own...

I had no idea, I thought you could ship wine very easily, but apparently not.

[BA to the Stars]

Because Earls Court is also known as Kangeroo Valley

[Flashman]

A London postcode.

Why?!?

They ship it in bulk form as wine concentrate then bottle it here.

[Spacecadet]

A London postcode.

Why?!?

less duty to pay

[NickFitz]

It seems estate-bottled wine was uncommon until it was popularised by Baron Philippe de Rothschild in the 1920s, but bulk-shipped wine is enjoying a resurgence, particularly for wines from the upside-down regions of the world: The estate-bottled wine anomaly

[eek]

Cheaper to ship over in tanks and bottle in UK rather than bottle, label and ship over?

+1 and because you're a cheapskate buying cheap plonk.

[Cliphead]

Cheaper to ship over in tanks and bottle in UK rather than bottle, label and ship over?

[Gruffalo]

A London postcode.

Why?!?