{"id":15738,"date":"2013-03-17T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/three-generations-behind-this-rising-star\/"},"modified":"2013-03-17T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T23:31:00","slug":"three-generations-behind-this-rising-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/03\/three-generations-behind-this-rising-star\/","title":{"rendered":"THREE GENERATIONS BEHIND THIS RISING STAR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WITH a history dating back just a dozen years, the Hunter Valley’s First Creek certainly qualifies in the up-and-coming category \u2013 and one of the Hunter’s most exciting at that.<\/u><\/u>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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With a family being involved in hotels in Newcastle and on the NSW South Coast from when he was a small child, Greg Silkman did a Science Degree at Newcastle University, then with a partner bought Tamburlaine Winery in 1986, ten years later decided to go out on his own and buy his own winery, Allanmere Wines.<\/u><\/u>\n<\/div>\n
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And the following year with several partners he bought land at Pokolbin and established First Creek Wines, with their first product hitting the shelves in 2001.<\/u><\/u>\n<\/div>\n
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Today three generations of the Silkman family run the company, including Greg’s daughter-in-law Liz Silkman (nee Jackson) who has been Chief Winemaker since 2009.<\/u><\/u>\n<\/div>\n
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A just-released 2011 Winemaker’s Reserve Chardonnay is a stand-out in their portfolio, a truly classic Hunter Chardonnay with a beautifully seamless mix of lemon, rockmelon and white peach on the palate and a wonderfully intense creamy structure.<\/u><\/u>\n<\/div>\n
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GREAT choice with roast duck served
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Pay $40 and enjoy with whole snapper oven-roasted with sliced potatoes, onions, tomatoes, and well-basted with lemon, garlic and parsley.<\/u><\/u>\n<\/div>\n
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\nONE TO NOTE: <\/i>MANDALA in Victoria’s Yarra Valley has released an interestingly quite soft and delicate 2011 Pinot Noir made from 80% fruit from the company’s Yarra Junction vineyard and 20% from its Dixon’s Creek.<\/u><\/u>\n<\/div>\n
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Forever fastidious about their fruit, Mandala discarded 30% of what they picked, retaining only the best 70% for this wine that’s got soft raspberry, cherry and strawberry fruit flavours on the palate, nice acidity, fine oak tannins and earthy and savoury notes.<\/u><\/u>\n<\/div>\n
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At $28 a nice choice with roast duck served with a fruity sauce or chutney.<\/u><\/u>\n<\/div>\n
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\n(NEED A FOOD\/DRINK IDEA? Check out\u00a0 http:\/\/www.vintnews.com<\/a> <\/i>)<\/u><\/u>\n<\/div>\n
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Wc18Mar13 David Ellis WITH a history dating back just a dozen years, the Hunter Valley’s First Creek certainly qualifies in the up-and-coming category \u2013 and one of the Hunter’s most exciting at that. PERFECT with oven-roasted wholesnapper, potatoes, onions and tomatoes. With a family being involved in hotels in Newcastle and on the NSW South […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[399,398,413,400],"class_list":["post-15738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chardonnay","tag-hunter-valley","tag-pinot-noir","tag-yarra-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}