A bottle of Andre Pierre wine pictured at the Dominique Portet winery in the Yarra Valley town of Coldstream, east of Melbourne. - AFP/File / Theo Karanikos
Yarra Valley (Australia) (AFP) - Wrapped tightly in sleeping bags to keep them from freezing in frigid conditions, Australian winemaker Sirromet's bottles slowly make their way across the vast Mongolian landscape on the back of a yak.
The wine's journey from Queensland state on Australia's east coast, about 9,500 kilometres (5,900 miles) as the crow flies, to isolated parts of the sparsely-populated Asian nation is one example of the growing appeal of vintages from Down Under.
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