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Parawa Estate, located at the southern end of South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula, last month launched its latest luxury wine in Italy, aimed at the top echelons of the world wine market.

The second of its ‘Classic Range’ - the 2008 Eden Grand Reserve Syrah will retail on release at US$800 a bottle. The wine will be launched at Vinitaly, Europe’s biggest wine event, in Verona.

The boutique company stormed onto the world scene last year with the release of the most expensive Australian wine ever (on release) with the Ingalalla Grand Reserve 2007.

This ‘Bordeaux style blend’ was released to the world media at Vinitaly 2012 with sales being made to the top tiers of wine buyers in Europe and Asia.

The 2008 Eden Grand Reserve Syrah will be Australia's most exclusive Syrah, a serious investment-grade wine that the makers consider to be an equal of many of the great Rhone Valley wines, most also marketed around USD $800 per bottle.

A dozen Australian and NZ wineries are joining forces for a trade mission to Hong Kong this month to capture a share of China's rapidly developing taste for our wines.

Winestate Magazine - www.winestate.com.au – Australia’ oldest wine industry publication, is presenting the Australasian Wine Industry Event at the Hong Kong Renaissance Harbourview Hotel, Wanchai in the middle of this month.

Winestate has invited leading Hong Kong hospitality and catering VIP guests invited for this presentation & wine tasting event, where they will meet with the business owners and winemakers from these Australian and New Zealand wine companies.

  • When: Tuesday 14th May, Wednesday 15th May, and Thursday 16th May, 3.00 pm – 5.30 pm each day
  • Where: Renaissance Harbourview Hotel Wanchai 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai

Louise Thompson Irish-born South Australian Louise Thompson may have to kiss the blarney stone if she achieves her goal of becoming SA’s Rose of Tralee on June 1.

Louise moved to Adelaide two years ago after leaving her home in the Irish country Kerry to pursue a career in Human Resources in Australia.

The international Rose of Tralee competition, which originated in Louise’s home county of Kerry, celebrates Irish culture around the world while supporting local charities such as our own Can:Do 4 Kids.

Rather than focusing on looks like a beauty pageant, the Rose of Tralee aims to attract women with “aspirations, ambitions, intellect, social responsibility and Irish heritage”.

Louise, who grew up watching on the Rose of Tralee finals on television, has family form in the competition: Her Aunt Clare was named Kerry Rose in 1986. “It’d be heaps good to be like my aunt and represent my new home back in Ireland,” said Louise, who now lives in Glenelg.

Kim LockKim Lock’s first novel, Peace, Love and Khaki Socks, has attracted such strong pre-orders that publisher MidnightSun Publishing has ordered a second print run – a week before it is launched.

Set in Darwin, Peace, Love and Khaki Socks tells the story of a young ‘army wife’ who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. The main character’s tumultuous journey explores the patriarchal culture inside the Australian Army and challenges many cultural conceits surrounding pregnancy and childbirth. At the heart of the story is the woman’s controversial choice to homebirth.

Debut author Kim Lock, who has drawn on insights from her own life as an army wife, will launch Peace, Love and Khaki Socks, at the SA Writers' Centre in Adelaide on Friday, April 26.

MidnightSun Publishing founder Anna Solding said the novel, which has been promoted online before its launch, had generated such strong pre-orders that the second print run was necessary. “I’ve never heard of this happening before,” she said.