(BBC) - Once the preserve of the upper classes, wine may never have taken off in the UK if it was not for the Australians. "People used to say that wine isn't for the likes of us," says Oz Clarke, wine writer and former presenter of the BBC's Food and Drink programme. But Australia helped democratise wine drinking in Britain, by giving people what they wanted at an affordable price. "It was about the very Australian approach to being accessible, in an era when we weren't wine drinkers in the way that we are today," says Yvonne May of Wine Australia.