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Australia’s top winemakers to sail with APT in 2017

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Wine ambassadors, from left - Scott McWilliam, Peter Barry, Bruce Tyrrell and Cherry Stowman
APT, the privately-owned Australian luxury tour and cruise company, will run its ‘Wine Series Cruises’ in Europe again in 2017.

APT’s wine ambassadors for 2017 are Scott McWilliam of McWilliam’s Wines whose first vines were planted in New South Wales in 1877, Bruce Tyrrell of Tyrrell’s Wines which was established in New South Wales in 1858, Peter Barry of Jim Barry Wines in South Australia’s Clare Valley and Cherry Stowman of Taylors Wines, also in the Clare Valley.  
 
Scott McWilliam and Peter Barry will travel aboard APT’s 15-day ‘Magnificent Europe’ cruise that departs July 23 and November 11, 2017.
 
Bruce Tyrrell will be aboard the 15-day ‘Romantic Rhone and Seine’ voyage which departs August 17, 2017, and Cherry Stowman will make the 18-day ‘Wonders of Bordeaux and Rhone’ cruise departing September 19.
 
The wine ambassadors will take a selection of their own wines for tasting sessions. They also will host special dinners paired with their own wines and lead shore excursions to local wineries.
 
‘Our wine series of river cruises have been incredibly popular,’ Debra Fox, APT’s executive gm global sales and marketing, said.
 
Fox said a role of the wine ambassadors is to explain the importance wine making has in the riverside communities of the European destinations that APT ships visit.