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MAKER FINDS HER DOMAINE IN YARRA VALLEY
Wc20Jun11 COOL: careful blending has made thisone a great match with seafoods. David Ellis LILIAN Carter wasted no time in making her presence known as Stills Winemaker when she joined Victoria’s Domaine Chandon at the beginning of 2010 after a six-year stint working in South Australia. Her 2010 Domaine Chandon Chardonnay that’s just been released […]
The Rochford Files
2008 Yarra ValleyReserve Chardonnay Attending the AIME conference in Melbourne last week, I was delighted to meet John Bright from Rochford – Yarra Valley. Rochford’s 08 Cab-Sav impressedsome finicky palates* Eager delegates were jostling for glasses of the superb 2008 Cab-Sav and the chilled Sauvignon Blanc and sparkling. John saw me wince at the Sav-Blanc […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: McWilliam’s 2006 Lillydale Estate Pinot Noir
ONE FOR LUNCH: McWilliam’s 2006 Lillydale Estate Pinot Noir must qualify as the closest you’ll get to a virtually “hand made” wine – beginning from the hand-picking of the fruit in its Yarra Valley vineyard, through to careful de-stemming, and 5-days pigeage (foot treading in vats in the winery.) This largely Old World treatment has […]
