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Good grape guide: CABERNET SAUVIGNON 

Cabernet sauvignon is known as 'The King of Grapes'. Its grape variety is responsible for the great clarets of Bordeaux and some finest wines in California and Chile. Closer to home, it's responsible for some of Australia's most famous red wines from regions such as Coonawarra, the Yarra Valley and Margaret River - regal reds with their deep purple colour and firm, upstanding character.

Cabernet is famous for its blackcurranty, elegant flavours and its often full-bodied, dry taste. And nearly all of these characteristics come from the small, dark-coloured grapes.

Everything you need to make the wine is in the grape: the sugary, juicy pulp inside the grape to give the wine its eventual alcohol and liquid, and the colour-rich skin with all the tannin and extract to give the wine its dryness and grip in the mouth. Also, because of its white powdery bloom on the outside, some yeasts to kick off fermentation. Because of its full-bodied flavour and dry, grippy taste, cabernet sauvignon is one of the best reds to stash away. After five years or more in a cool, dark place, it develops complex, savoury characters of cedar and earthiness. 

Whether it's an old bottle with sediment in the bottom, or a young bottle full of bold, brash fruit flavours, cabernet sauvignon often benefits from a good airing to help it loosen up and give you more drinking pleasure. Try decanting an hour or so before serving - use a posh decanter if you like, or a simple jug. Cabernet also likes to be drunk from big glasses.

It gives you the opportunity to slosh the wine around to appreciate its colour and majestic aromas. Long live the king!

Blending the grapes

You know, it's a funny thing, but quite a few people think wines made from a single grape variety are better somehow than blends of two or more different grapes. So straight shiraz, for example, is more revered than shiraz cabernet, a blend of shiraz and cabernet sauvignon. 

For me, this doesn't make sense. I think of wine as food one ingredient can be wonderful on its own, it's very often better when paired or blended with other ingredients. Also, there are some ingredients that go particularly well with each other.Think of the humble tomato. If it's a home-grown, sunripened specimen just picked off the vine, still warm, it'll probably be delicious. But add a slice of fresh mozzarella, a basil leaf and a drizzle of olive oil and ... well, to me the blend of flavours now sounds a lot more attractive. It's the same with wine. Take semillon it tastes lemony, full, soft, but it's not highly aromatic. Now take sauvignon blanc it's much more perfumed, but light and a bit sharp. Put the two together and they complement each other perfectly. Other good examples of blends that go well together include lemony semillon and richer-tasting chardonnay, firm cabernet and soft merlot, ripe shiraz and lean cabernet, full-bodied red shiraz and the perfumed white viognier, and spicy grenache with firm mourvedre, which makes the perfect wine for an easy Sunday lunch. Walking with the wine judges

Walk into a typical bottle shop in Sydney and you're surrounded by wines. Many have a gold medal sticker on the bottle, which means a wine judge at a wine show has tasted that wine and scored it highly. But how do the experts decide which wine is worthy of a medal?

Most judging occurs in clean, odour-free, light-filled surroundings, so the judges can clearly evaluate the wines' colour and aroma.The judges drink from masked bottles and have the wines prepoured so they don't know the identity of the wine they're tasting and can't be swayed by prejudice.They then go through an elaborate ritual of squinting, swirling, sniffing, slurping and spitting to evaluate each wine, looking for faults (points are docked when these are spotted) and awarding marks for good bright colour, pleasing aromas, complexity and persistence of taste. Using the standard Australian wine show system, they award a maximum of three points for colour and appearance, seven points for smell and 10 points for taste and overall quality. 

A total of 15.5 points and above is a bronze,17 is a silver and 18.5 is a gold. Gold medal wines are then re-tasted and a trophy awarded to the top wine in the line-up. Right. An award-winning white wine from the National Wine Show of Australia.

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About the author: Tommy Crans is a Wine expert who writes for The City Web Guide Magazine.

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Top 5 Vacation Mistakes To Avoid

An annual vacation should allow you to relax and to enjoy life, but it’s fair to say that these occasions don’t always go according to plan. If you want to make the most of your vacation this year, then it’s important that you should avoid some of the most common mistakes. The reality is that, for those who work hard, it’s likely that the vacation will be a real highlight on the calendar. It will have been the focus of attention for many months, with the idea that it will provide a suitable break from the daily routine. When viewed in this context, it’s clearly important that everything should go according to plan. Here are 5 top tips, so that you can avoid making the same mistakes that blight the vacations of others.

1. Don’t get into arguments
It can be fun to go travelling with a new group of people, but there’s a real danger associated with choosing travelling companions who you haven’t previously spent a lot of time with.
A vacation is not the ideal time to discover that they have annoying personality traits, or that you don’t get along as well as you had previously imagined. Once arguments start to break out, there is no doubt that the holiday atmosphere can quickly be ruined.

2. Don’t forget your documents
Have you ever arrived at the airport and discovered that you have forgotten your passport? Although we may think it’s obvious that such documents should be carried, it’s actually incredibly easy to make mistakes.
Write a list of all the important documents that are required and ensure that everything is packed.

3. Don’t forget about travel insurance
You need to have travel insurance in place and it’s absolutely vital that you should be aware of the associated terms and conditions. I know that this can be incredibly boring, but the truth is that you don’t want to be confronted with any nasty surprises.
The important element here is to understand that help will soon be at hand, in case you need it. I also like to ensure that I have at least two copies of all paperwork relating to insurance. I place one set within a suitcase and ensure that I have the other copy close to me at all times. That way, if the suitcase gets lost in transit, I know that I’ll still have access to the relevant details.

4. Don’t forget wet weather items!
When you make your vacation booking, there may be an assumption that you are heading off to spend a week in the sunshine. Indeed, you may book accordingly.
What happens, however, if you arrive to find that you are faced by unseasonal weather conditions? The key here is to imagine all eventualities and to ensure that you pack clothes that can be worn in multiple layers.

5. Don’t spend vacation time thinking about work
If you do have a stressful job, then you may find that it’s hard to switch off. My advice would be to forget about checking your emails and to spend your time having fun. That will lead to the most invigorating vacation experience.
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