TAKE TO BEST OF NSW’S BEST

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WHETHER you’ve a palate you reckon could rival the best of show judges, or you’re just a social slurper who enjoys a red or white or three any time, the place for you on October 22 will be Sydney’s Wharf 8 where you’ll have the chance to drink your way through the best from NSW’s best wineries.

Called NSW Wine @ Wharf 8, it will be an opportunity to not only taste this year’s NSW Wine Awards’ Top 40 wines, but others from fifty-plus wineries in the State’s fourteen wine regions that put up a good showing in the Awards.

“It’s a chance to experience the State’s best wines – including the NSW Wine of the Year and the Wine Awards’ trophy winners – discover something about the State’s fourteen wine regions, and to meet the people who make the wines,” said Chair of NSW Wine Strategy, Tiffany Nugan.

“It’ll be both educational and fun. For just $35, visitors get a souvenir wine glass and will be able to taste as many wines as they wish – coupled with gourmet cheeses to match all styles and varieties from table wines to bubblies, fortifieds and dessert wines,” Ms Nugan said.

NSW Wine @ Wharf 8 will be staged from 5.30pm to 8.30pm on Wednesday October 22 at Wharf 8 that’s at 53-59 Hickson Road, next to King Street Wharf on Sydney’s Darling Harbour; for bookings or more information phone (02) 6964 4762 or visit www.nswwine.com.au

ONE FOR LUNCH: WHEN McLaren Vale’s Dowie Doole winemaker, Brian Light launched his new Second Nature label, for his inaugural white he headed for the hills – the Adelaide Hills that is, which he reckons produces the best Sauvignon Blanc fruit in Australia.

“Our 2008 Second Nature Sauvignon Blanc shares Marlborough (New Zealand’s) intensive, distinctive aromatics, but our’s probably shows stronger bursts of tropical fruit flavours – and its mouth-filling and not thin on the palate.” Pay $19 and enjoy with Coffin Bay oysters or grilled sand whiting.

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[] BOTTLER! Bountiful expectations at NSW Wine @ Wharf 8 on October 22.

[] THE best of our Sauvignon Blanc – its Second Nature to Brian Light.