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28 August 2007

INNOVATION AT TANUNDA CELLARS

Tanunda Cellars, located in Murray Street, Tanunda, Barossa Valley, has installed two wonderful tasting machines. No, the machines don’t do the tasting but make the tasting a real adventure, particularly showing as they do a range of the smaller winemakers’ wines.

Each machine has six bottles available for tasting, six red and six white. The machines are connected to a gas system which is truly excellent in so much that it keeps the samples beautifully fresh for quite some time, so assuring the tasters of a quality experience.

The gas used in covering the wines is indeed argon, one of the more popular gases used in many, many wineries for exactly the same purpose of keeping their wine in tank as fresh as possible.

The system works by buying a card at the front counter, and then by self – selection of the particular wines you might wish to taste. Depending on the size of the taste required, so the cost is adjusted.

So Irvine Wines encourages visitors to Barossa to try this fantastic new approach to wine enjoyment. Apart form the enjoyment of course is the discovery factor of wines that you may not have heard of ever before, and when you think there is now some 84 wineries of all sizes in the Barossa District, you can see how easy it is not to know them all.

So Irvine Wines congratulates Chris Atkins, who took the interest to set up this fascinating tasting system – there is nothing quite like trying before you buy, especially when you have “discovered” a brand new wine.

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