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WINE OF THE WEEK: Beelgara’s 2007 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc
ONE FOR LUNCH: SEMILLON Sauvignon Blanc has really taken off in this country in recent years, and when you can grab an award-winning bottle such as Beelgara’s 2007 at just $7.99 it’s little wonder. This wine’s got lively citrus flavours, touches of capsicum, and tropical-fruit freshness; at the price and quality it’s just the drop […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: Ferngrove’s Symbol Sauvignon Blanc Semillon
ONE FOR LUNCH: THINGS went anything but well in 2007 for makers in Western Australia’s Frankland River region 300km south of Perth: rainfall was fifteen per cent below normal, and consecutive days of 39-degree temperatures in March elevated baumes and shrank the fruit. Ferngrove Wines’ Senior Winemaker, Kim Horton decided under such conditions to harvest […]
DELIVERING BEYOND EXPECTATION
ROSEMOUNT’s Show Reserve is an interesting range of wines sitting between their Diamond and Flagship Labels, and giving consumers good-value fresh, bright and vibrant wines around the $20 a bottle mark. They’ve a half dozen wines in the range from vintages in NSW, South Australia and Western Australia between 2004 and 2007, with one of […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: See Saw 2007 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc
ONE FOR LUNCH: SEE-SAW has done something unusual with its 2007 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc: the Semillon component comes from the Hunter Valley and the Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough in New Zealand – individually iconic regions for these two varieties. The resultant wine made by Andrew Margan and Hamish MacGowan is one of those wonderfully food-friendly […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: See Saw 2007 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc
ONE FOR LUNCH: SEE-SAW has done something unusual with its 2007 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc: the Semillon component comes from the Hunter Valley and the Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough in New Zealand – individually iconic regions for these two varieties. The resultant wine made by Andrew Margan and Hamish MacGowan is one of those wonderfully food-friendly […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: Starvedog Lane’s 2006 Sauvignon Blanc
One For Lunch: Starvedog Lane’s 2006 Sauvignon Blanc is a real quaffer of abundant grapefruit and lime flavours and a lively natural acidity that reflects the cool Mediterranean hills climate of its home in the Adelaide Hills. Pay $24.50 and offer with soft shell crab accompanied by wilted spinach and a warm tomato-basil vinaigrette.
WINE OF THE WEEK: Rosemount’s 2007 Diamond Label Sauvignon Blanc
ONE FOR LUNCH: Seafood and Sauvignon Blanc go hand-in-hand, and Rosemount’s 2007 Diamond Label is just the drop to share with shellfish dishes or a heavily seafood-weighted paella. Varietal grassy and green pea aromas bounce out of the glass on pouring, and flavours are equally grassy, coupled with ripe passionfruit and tropical fruit; if seafood […]
SUCCESS OF A SWIFT SEA-CHANGE
ED and David Swift were only in their twenties when they decided on an earlier- rather than a later-in-life sea-change: Ed with an engineering background and David with one in design, decided they’d venture into the winemaking business. So in the mid-1990s David started building a winery on Mt Canobolas in the Orange region of […]
GAMBLE MADE NZ WINE HISTORY
BACK in 1973 when Ross and Bill Spence started a small family-affair winery in West Auckland, they hoped that many of the techniques they planned to employ would assist revolutionise New Zealand’s fledgling wine industry. They called their venture Matua Valley Wines, and within a few years had far exceeded their wildest expectations: after gambling […]
BILL CONFOUNDS THE CYNICS – AGAIN
WHEN Westend Estate’s Bill Calabria let it be known he was planting Sauvignon Blanc, mates reminded him he lived in the broiling NSW Riverina, not in cooler “cardigan country” regions where the variety flourishes. But Bill proved such skeptics wrong, and for the past eight vintages has been making an exceptional Sauvignon Blanc he sells […]
