Subject Guide: Wine Industry Operations: Books/DVDs

Celebrating the story of how Australian table wine matured from being on the nose in the early 1970s, to becoming the toast of the global wine market, Chateau Chunder reveals all the key moments with all the key players. It's a story straight from the horse's mouth.

Oz Clarke - renowned wine authority, Francophile and former Wine tasting champion of the World - attempts to reveal the wonder of the world's most complex viniculture to James May - a beer drinker who can only identify a wine only as being nice or nasty. The results are often ugly and embarrassing for Britain. This is what happens when two grown mean spend a month together in a car arguing about who's going to drive and whether or not it is acceptable to eat with your fingers in the Chateau of a French aristocrat. French wine, for many people, is a subject shrouded in mystery and confusion and following Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure, it remains so. Can you make your own wine in a bucket? Should you spit or swallow? And where does this tent pole go?

Episodes of the half hour television program dealing with the Australian wine scene, with segments on wine varieties, growing areas, winemaking and wine etiquette, including interviews with wine experts.

Wine Lovers' Guide To Australia, the popular and critically acclaimed SBS television series touches on everything from the history of wine-making in Australia to the challenges of growing new grape varieties; from wine-making to wine etiquette.