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FISH favourite – or with a simple roast chicken if you’re not into fish |
David Ellis
TIM Adams Wines have released a ripper 2009 Semillon from their Clare Valley heartland, a wine that’s what Clare Semillon is all about.
Somewhat different to Semillons from such major growing areas as NSW’s Hunter Valley, Clare Valley Semillon can be “more robust” – as is the case with this one – and often with more concentrated fruit flavours. This wine’s also got some nice notes to it from its oak maturation.
At $22 grab a bottle of this Tim Adams and put it on the table with your favourite pan-fried white-fleshed fish. You’ll find the intense tropical fruit flavours go wonderfully with your fish choice – or if you’re not into fish, enjoy it just as much with simple roast chicken and mashed potatoes infused with a handful of chopped parsley, or a baking pan of roast vegetables.
ONE FOR LUNCH: PENFOLDS first started making their now-famous Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz a half-century ago, at the time with fruit exclusively from the Barossa Valley’s Kalimna Vineyard it had bought at war’s end in 1945.
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SPOIL yourself with this and homemade boeuf en croute |
Today Bin 28 is as popular as ever and a showcase of warm-climate Australian Shiraz, but is a multi-region, multi-vineyard blend embracing South Australia’s Langhorne Creek, Upper Adelaide, McLaren Vale, Limestone Coast – and with the Barossa still very much to the fore.
The latest release, the 2007, is the product of a difficult vintage with low winter temperatures followed by an unusually hot summer, but through which winemaker Peter Gago and his team maintained the label’s esteemed image.
This is a wine with generously concentrated red and black berry fruit flavours, some earthy notes, and aromas almost like uncorking a rich Christmas cake. At $33.99 it’s just the drop to enjoy with something out of the ordinary like a homemade boeuf en croute, or a nice piece of chargrilled rare rib-eye.
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