Recently Mark Smith featured our humble website in his column "off the vine" (The Sunday Examiner 4th Jan 09). Now, like any self respecting Z grade celebrity, we gratefully accept any publicity but it has resulted in some shouty emails from our northern Tasmanian 'friends'.  Here is just a taste - by the way the emails were longer but we took out the really rude bits:

Guys

Just had a look at the site. Typical. All the vineyards and winemakers are from the south and surprise surprise so are you lot.

Get serious and include some real vineyards or get off the web

Brett

Exeter 

PJ and others at Winepunters HQ

Just thought I would let you know that we have fantastic wines in many areas of Tasmania not just the south.  You should get off your, probably enormous, behinds and drive past Ross. You might be surprised at how good Tassie wine can be.

Lorraine

Trevallyn

OO ER!.   Fear not fair northerners.  We are not biased we just suffer from budgetus non existus.  We started with those people we could get to easily and cheaply but our aim is to talk to someone from every vineyard in Tasmania, yep every one of them.  We also want to talk to every winemaker who produces Tasmanian wine, yep every one of them.  This will take a bit of time and probably a lot of begging but we will get there.

To show you we are sincere while we can't offer you the "Three Peaks" we may be able to provide the "Three Hills". We have just completed an interview with Julian Allport from Moores Hill, and are currently in the process of lining up interviews with Clover Hill and Goaty Hill.  All excellent Tamar Valley vineyards we are sure you will agree.  So please no more shouty emails about bias.  There are so many other things we do wrong that you can complain about so just cast your nets a little wider.  

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