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Speaker 1: The Top Up Wines People's Choice WA Wine Awards are

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Speaker 1: on now I have some thoughts. Until the end of

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Speaker 1: the month. You can vote at Topupwines dot com. And

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Speaker 1: joining us to talk about it is Chris Mauston.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello guys.

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Speaker 1: When did you go from football to wine?

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Speaker 2: Years and years ago? While you're still playing footy?

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Speaker 3: It gave me an excuse to be able to drink

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Speaker 3: on Tuesdays during the season.

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Speaker 2: But no, I was studying and working in wine.

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Speaker 3: For about the last five years of my career and

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Speaker 3: they finished and gone straight into it. This is a

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Speaker 3: new little initiative that's tacked on to the end of it.

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Speaker 1: Now, when you say studying and working in wine, was

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Speaker 1: that like to become a semelia or is that part

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Speaker 1: of it? Or is it about the growing of the grape?

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Speaker 2: Of all of it?

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Speaker 3: The growing making side was originally what got me into it,

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Speaker 3: that romance and the history and the agriculture side. And

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Speaker 3: then you can only really learn it's called the w set.

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Speaker 3: Back in the day, I did a level two like

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Speaker 3: over a decade ago. Can't remember a thing that I

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Speaker 3: did that's more around sort of tasting wine and then

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Speaker 3: you know remember and then working, so on your day

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Speaker 3: off at foot you had to do study or work experience.

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Speaker 3: So mine was with off the vine, selling selling wine.

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Speaker 2: Sweet.

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Speaker 4: Did you ever do that thing at the start of

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Speaker 4: a season. Probably did in the last five years of playing,

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Speaker 4: where you said I'm not going to drink all season

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Speaker 4: because I'm dedicated to that.

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Speaker 2: No, I never did that in the club. Never did that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, lots of people did that. I needed a

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Speaker 3: little bit more balance in my life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Now tell us about the awards. How does how

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Speaker 1: does this work?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So it's a sort of initiative that we started. I

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Speaker 3: can't believe it didn't exist before. But in the most part,

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Speaker 3: there's a there's an extensive wine judging program which is

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Speaker 3: done by similar air as wine makers like Masses of Wine,

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Speaker 3: and the punters sort of get told this is the

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Speaker 3: top wines. This is the opposite. This is you don't

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Speaker 3: have to have a degree, you don't have to know anything.

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Speaker 3: You just have to like what you like.

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Speaker 2: Vote for it.

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Speaker 3: So so far the votes are pretty crazy. You've got

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Speaker 3: some very traditional wines that you expect to see there,

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Speaker 3: and then some little little guys doing some different stuff

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Speaker 3: that I've never heard of even and it's it's looking cool.

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Speaker 3: So it's really given the power of the people, I suppose,

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Speaker 3: and just showing us what you like, trying to take

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Speaker 3: the wink out of it a little bit.

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Speaker 1: There is a lot of little guys around w A

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Speaker 1: with the and some of them do some amazing things.

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Speaker 1: So this is a great way for us to learn

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Speaker 1: that they're out.

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Speaker 2: There undred percent.

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Speaker 3: And like, so I'm in the industry, obviously you would

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Speaker 3: have thought that I'd know majority of people in w A.

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Speaker 3: I'm a bit shocked, actually.

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Speaker 4: So if you're popping up doing it's.

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Speaker 3: Super cool and you sort of cutting edge stuff. So

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Speaker 3: like people, there's lots of chill dreads in this in

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Speaker 3: the vote.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some orange wines as well.

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Speaker 3: There's people are really expanding and it's it's not about

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Speaker 3: how well you know, how big the branding market that

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Speaker 3: they've got, or how much money they've got in the

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Speaker 3: bank to be able to sell it to you.

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Speaker 2: It's just literally how good it tastes and you like

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Speaker 2: it you've got.

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Speaker 4: It's I had to pick your favorite children mane and

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Speaker 4: might depending on what you're doing or what you're reading.

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Speaker 4: But you have things you prefer, things you love yeah,

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Speaker 4: you're talking about.

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Speaker 2: Me for sure.

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Speaker 3: My top five is looking lots of shard okay, and

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Speaker 3: there's there's one little producer that gets a couple gongs

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Speaker 3: and one of them is a Groenerveltliner and that's got

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Speaker 3: from a little producer called Lowboy, So he's the son

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Speaker 3: of Forest Hill, which is very old school winner in

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Speaker 3: Denmark and they're making some cool stuff. But yeah, man,

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Speaker 3: there's the number one one for me in my taste

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Speaker 3: was this year was flame Tree Sr Shark So if

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Speaker 3: you ever see that around and you like sharnay, yeah

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Speaker 3: for sure.

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Speaker 1: So I'm a I'm definitely a red wine drinker and

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Speaker 1: I think that West Australia makes some of the best

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Speaker 1: wine in the world. And I've really been branching out

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Speaker 1: recently a bit more to the valley as well as

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Speaker 1: you know, everything that's on offer down south, So definitely

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Speaker 1: and also up around Bickley Valley in places like that.

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Speaker 1: It's people think of Margaret River get Market, but there's

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Speaker 1: so many other places. How are the wines in the

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Speaker 1: vote chosen?

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Speaker 3: So basically we've got a database of about twelve hundred

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Speaker 3: wines on there, all West Australian wines and all released

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Speaker 3: this year, so the current release versions of these wines,

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Speaker 3: you can go on there and go through those, and

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Speaker 3: there's also the ability to we have missed some so

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Speaker 3: you can add them, will get a notification about it,

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Speaker 3: and then we can approve it, make sure that it

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Speaker 3: was released this year, it is West Australian, and then

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Speaker 3: join the database and.

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Speaker 2: You can vote for it.

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Speaker 3: So you just jump online and search for what you

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Speaker 3: like if it's not there at it and then you

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Speaker 3: can vote for it.

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Speaker 2: And it's a pretty cool prize too.

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Speaker 3: So when you do vote, you go into the draw

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Speaker 3: to win a instant wine cellar. Basically, so the top

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Speaker 3: as much of the top one hundred as we that

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Speaker 3: is still available because some of these wines potentially are

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Speaker 3: sold out. Yeah, but the ones we can source will

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Speaker 3: go into a wine fridge is well, like a really

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Speaker 3: beautiful wine you'll win, so pretty much instant self.

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Speaker 4: Isn't it amazing We live in a state at least

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Speaker 4: it's talking about it's not just down South, but the

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Speaker 4: fact that tourism WA can talk about great places to

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Speaker 4: go to and the words sell a door quite often

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Speaker 4: attached to that we're going to most of the time.

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Speaker 4: So many great places to visit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not producing Like in terms of the total

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Speaker 3: amount of wine producing Australia, it's quite a small fraction.

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Speaker 3: But almost all of the stuff that WA produces is

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Speaker 3: at a premium level, and that's internationally wise, so special state.

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Speaker 1: I have a question, how important do you think wine

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Speaker 1: labels are to a wine's success? Because how many people

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Speaker 1: do you, reckon, go into a model shop or whatever,

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Speaker 1: and they don't know anything about the wine, so they

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Speaker 1: based their what they pick on the label.

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Speaker 3: It's funny to say that. I think definitely, Traditionally they

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Speaker 3: have been quite important.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think with the knowledge of some of these store

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Speaker 3: owners now though, and the ability to sell a story

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Speaker 3: or give you the customer an example about what that

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Speaker 3: wine is is probably bringing that backless important. But like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I know what I shot with my eyes. T you

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Speaker 3: walk in sometimes something strikes you you can't really get

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Speaker 3: away from it. The less of that happening and the

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Speaker 3: more it is about the quality of what you're drinking.

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Speaker 2: That's that's what I want to see grow. And it

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Speaker 2: is slowly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes bottles and levels so damn sexy as well.

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Speaker 4: I know you probably don't want to talk about the

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Speaker 4: Eagles first game of the year. But do you think

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Speaker 4: Andrew mcwalteron might had a couple of reds last night?

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Speaker 2: Just to say, I reckon a big bottle of cabinet. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even bother pour it in the little glasses.

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Speaker 2: Just contemplate straight from the neck. Well.

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Speaker 1: The Top Up Wines People's Choice w Way Wine Awards,

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Speaker 1: you can vote at top Upwines dot com. I'm definitely

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Speaker 1: going to have a look at that website.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much.