Yep, suspect you could be correct,

. Ah but wait we want to encourage people to come and visit Tassie.
Hey guys a little bright spark fact of intelligence. I recall from my days at Uni during my undergrad Science degree, in both Climatology and Physical Geography. We actually have the same latitude as Tuscany (Italy). So perhaps Tassie could be called New Tuscany. Beats being called New South Wales

and the sun down here does shine brightly, and the grapes are growing nicely. Just a thought.