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This article focuses on matters related to the Australian wine Wynns Black Label. Every Aussie cellar has not had at least a few bottles of Wynns Black Label Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon squirreled away in a dark corner at some time. Yet despite an impeccable track record, an historical contribution to Australian wine that few other labels could contemplate, an 80,000-case production — making it one of the biggest-selling cabernets in Australia — and, perhaps most importantly, providing an enormous amount of pleasure to thousands of wine lovers over the decades, one can rarely think of this wine when listing the icons or favourites.

Presents several house furnishings included in the Designer Guild spring collections in Australia. Inclusion of Nurata cushions in leaf and geranium; Description of the executive flask; Cost of Alessi tea cup and saucer.

Examines the works of Australian ceramic artist Stewart Scambler. Description of the pots and bottles created by Scambler; Clay used by Scambler; Firing technique he used.

The article provides information on an odd-looking bottle, found by a woman on Australian beach, which has German writing protruded on it.

The article offers information on several environmental projects in Australia which can be joined by citizens to work as citizen scientists and presents several products that one can use while going on a field trip. The projects discussed include the ClimateWatch by Earthwatch and the Bureau of Meteorology of Australia, an initiative by the Take 3 For The Sea organisation, and the BowerBird organisation. Also mentioned are bottles from Earth Bottle and Dresden sunglasses.

The article presents information on the evolution in milk containers of Australia depicting technology and a change in lifestyle. In 2011, more than 2.3 billion litres of drinking milk was produced from 1.6 million dairy cows. Disposable cartons appeared in 1960s after the use of bottles. Disposable foil caps came in 1930s. Pasteurisation became a legal requirement in 1940s. Tin or glass billies were used until around the 1930s.

This article presents information related to Christmas gifts. It is not always about wine. Some of the best last-minute Christmas gifts come in other bottles. Certainly one needs some high-quality wine to drink— in order to get through— but one also needs a few stopgap gift ideas for those wine-afflicted loved ones who so invariably dominate people's lives. The author's household has bought a number of Allvin bottle openers for gifts. It will cut away a wine bottle's foil capsule, remove a cork, open a bottle of beer, and— and this is the most wonderfully ridiculous part— it will remove a screwcap. INSET: Haartsen punch.

The article reports that Australia has largely outgrown the beret-wearing silliness of the Beaujolais Nouveau release, but at one past midnight on the third Thursday of November, the ritual will erupt in France's Beaujolais region. The celebrations will account for more than 65 million bottles-half the region's annual production. Georges Duboeuf, the region's largest négociant and driving force behind Beaujolais, predicts the 2004 vintage will be elegant, full and fresh.

The article reports on the finding of Australian accident investigators that the failure of an oxygen bottle caused the fuselage rupture of a Qantas Boeing 747-400 on July 25, 2008. Significantly, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has no idea how the failure can be prevented from happening again, particularly since the bottle fell into the sea and thus cannot be examined.