Jane Faulkner From the Melbourne Age, 5 June 2007
IT seems there are some restaurateurs and wine folk around town who are mighty unimpressed with Tasmania’s timber giant Gunns’ proposal to build a $2 billion pulp mill on the shores of the shores of the pristine Tamar River near Launceston.
It’s an important cool-climate wine area known as the Tamar Valley Wine Route. Gunns owns several local wineries including Tamar Ridge, Coombend and Rosevears Estate — named vineyard of the year by the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania two weeks ago. As a protest against the pulp mill, Melbourne restaurants Oyster, Fifteen, Bottega and the Carlisle Wine Bar have removed Gunns wine from their lists or don’t intend to stock them at all. If any other restaurants follow suit, let Cellar Door know.
