A light touch: wines of Western Australia

Published Nov 09 2020 at 11:30 AM GMT

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It may be half a world apart, but Western Australian wines are reminiscent of BordeauxMorrisons The Best Western Australia Cabernet, Australia 2018 ("7.25, Morrisons) If your familiarity with Western Australia is based on the hard-drinking lives of ornery fishermen as depicted in the novels of Tim Winton or the moustachioed toughness of West Australian cricket, it can come as a shock to learn the wine region with which it is most frequently compared is Bordeaux.
OK, so the vineyards of Margaret River or Fra.