This means of marketing alcohol was completely alien to me. In my home country of Scotland tourists learnt about whisky by following a guide around a distillery, with the prospect of a free sample at the end of a tour. Here in Australia you sat in a packed theatre with the vinyard owner pouncing across the stalls to chat to each individual member of the audience. When he eventually reached me, he pulled out a mass of machinery from under the seats and treated me to a free sample of his finest Chardonnay. This he served from a complexity of metal pipes that would not have looked out of place in a household plumbing system.