Programmes Journey Into Wine- Australia

1 - Melbourne's Wine Regions

Isabelle touches down in Melbourne, the lifestyle capital of Australia. She takes to the road for some wine and food matching in a BYO, explores the state's offering of pinot noirs and meets some of the biggest cheeses in the wine world down under. She cooks up a barbie with a fine catch of a winemaker, gets behind the 'wheel' of Australia's oldest steam train and learns what it is that is just so unique about the Australian spirit that meant the country's wine was catapulted to centre stage in less than a quarter century!
Duration: 30

2 - Inland Victoria

Isabelle goes bush, abandons Melbourne and heads inland to Victoria's dry dusty interior. On her way she learns to throw a boomerang with an Aboriginal elder, unearths indigenous delights when she meets one of Australia's most famous filmmakers, and pays a visit to a winemaker called Duck busy building a Japanese Buddhist temple. She tastes her way through the difference in climate of this outback hinterland where the sun bakes the earth and finds out just how much the Victorian wine industry owes to gold.
Duration: 30

3 - The Barossa

This episode sees Isabelle visiting the spiritual home of Australia's signature grape variety - Shiraz. Settled by German refugees in the 1800s, Isabelle discovers a heritage that is still very much alive today: wursts of every shape and size, names like Fritz and Franz aplenty and, funnily enough, some of Australia's best Riesling! She pays a visit to the home of Russell Crowe's favourite wine, tries a tipple that is history, learns just how important the issue of water and sustainable agriculture is to the Australia of today and tomorrow.
Duration: 30

4 - Adelaide’s Wine Regions

Isabelle ends the series in the capital of South Australia, Adelaide, aka Australia's Wine State, where she touches the pulse of the Australian wine world and meets the Wizards of Oz -founding fathers of modern Australian winemaking. In this episode Isabelle discovers the importance that the medical profession has had on Australia's wine heritage, meets a wacky winemaking visionary and travels to one of Australia's most remote and savagely beautiful islands, where grapes rub shoulders with colonies of sea lions, wallabies, and the real Aussie outdoors.
Duration: 30