Cool-climate wines are cool

After spending time in limbo, NSW wine is now on a roll, with several years of rising sales. The trend is most marked in restaurants, bars, hotels and other places where wine is consumed ”on premise”. Research on restaurant wine lists by Wine Business Solutions shows a 22 per cent increase for NSW and ACT wines between 2010 and last year. The growth is being driven by cool-climate wines, especially from the Orange and Canberra regions, which both enjoyed growth of more than 60 per cent, writes Huon Hooke in the Sydney Morning Herald.