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    Thin Skins: Why the French Hate Australian Wine
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    Thin Skins: Why the French Hate Australian Wine
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    Thin Skins: Why the French Hate Australian Wine

    By Campbell Mattinson

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    Australian wine is in trouble: just as a growing number of connoisseurs scoff at its taste, the way it's grown, and how it's made, hundreds of the country's small wineries are battling to survive. Thin Skins addresses the forces fighting Australian wine and harming its reputation. In witty, insightful writing that's a combination of P.J. O'Rourke and Oz Clarke, Campbell Mattison debunks the lies and showcases the people who are saving the industry by producing great wine.
    Anyone who enjoys drinking Australian wine, or cares about how it is farmed, will savor this entertaining, inspiring story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSterling Epicure
    Release dateOct 4, 2011
    ISBN9781402790935
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    Thin Skins: Why the French Hate Australian Wine
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    Campbell Mattinson

    Campbell Mattinson started a journalism cadetship in 1987. He's mostly worked as a writer, editor, photographer and wine critic, though he's also had stints as a dishwasher in an Indian restaurant, as a data entry clerk at a stockbroker and as a proofreader of phone books. He won the Best Australian Sports Writing Award in 1996 for a story that is the basis of We Were Not Men. His 2006 biography of winemaker Maurice O'Shea, The Wine Hunter, has won numerous awards, as has his website, The Winefront. He describes We Were Not Men as 'the only story I ever really wanted to write'.

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