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Southern retreat

Beyond Western Australia's Margaret River there's the Great Southern Region, which offers equally picturesque wineries and the great outdoors. By Cheah Ui-Hoon

Published Fri, Apr 18, 2014 · 10:00 PM
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HAVING heard how difficult it is to pair chocolates with wine, oenologist John Wade signed up for a short course, and within six months, exchanged his 40-year wine-making career for a new one in chocolate.

He migrated over from wines to the "dark side" as it were, and named his chocolate atelier accordingly.

"But there's not a lot of difference between winemaking and chocolate making - it's all about flavour, balance, structure, and using good raw ingredients," shares the grandfatherly-looking chocolatier with white hair and a well-trimmed beard.

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