Best of all worlds

Some years ago, an agricultural scientist told me that Hobart and its surrounds was one of only three regions on the globe that could successfully grow and ripen such a wide and variable range of fruits and crops as grapes, pomme and stone fruits, hops, rye, barley, berries and more. Add in an abundant supply of clean water and, in terms of this column, we’re in the very happy situation of having the local raw ingredients to produce a range of alcoholic beverages unmatched anywhere else in the country, perhaps in the world, reports The Mercury.