{"id":16132,"date":"2010-11-02T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wonderful-whites-from-slow-ripening-vintage-2\/"},"modified":"2010-11-02T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T10:50:00","slug":"wonderful-whites-from-slow-ripening-vintage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/11\/wonderful-whites-from-slow-ripening-vintage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WONDERFUL WHITES FROM SLOW-RIPENING VINTAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<span>Wc01Nov10<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/TM_tCuIkQhI\/AAAAAAAAL7k\/XnXHWKUOWMk\/s1600\/ET+MR+SAV+BLANC+rsz-749930.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/TM_tCuIkQhI\/AAAAAAAAL7k\/XnXHWKUOWMk\/s320\/ET+MR+SAV+BLANC+rsz-749930.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Ellis<\/p>\n<p>PROLONGED periods of warm weather in Western Australia&#8217;s Margaret River in 2009, punctuated by short, cool and dry spells, gave growers and winemakers wonderfully slow-ripened fruit with great concentrations of flavour and natural grape acidity for their 2009 labels. <\/p>\n<p>Evans &#038; Tate have now-released three beautifully flavoured white wines from this vintage, with one \u2013 their 2009 Margaret River Sauvignon Blanc \u2013 already notching up a Trophy and six Golds on the show circuit.<\/p>\n<p>This is a wine loaded with passionfruit, lime and snow pea flavours, and with accompanying fresh grassy hints. The company&#8217;s 2009 Margaret River Semillon Sauvignon Blanc has a similar core, together with herbal, gooseberry and nectarine characters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/TM_tC31AkRI\/AAAAAAAAL7s\/tltv26nEsDQ\/s1600\/Wynns+V%26A+Shiraz-751378.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/TM_tC31AkRI\/AAAAAAAAL7s\/tltv26nEsDQ\/s320\/Wynns+V%26A+Shiraz-751378.jpg\"><\/a>And the third of the trio, crafted by winemaker Matthew Byrne, is a Chardonnay with delightfully concentrated stone fruit flavours coupled with finer citrus characters and reflecting the differing characters of the sub-regions of the Margaret River from which he sourced his fruit.<\/p>\n<p>All three wines are value-buying at $22.99 a bottle; the Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon Sauvignon and both good seafood wines, and the Chardonnay will go will also make a good match with seafood or a gently-flavoured pasta.<\/p>\n<p>ONE FOR LUNCH: WYNNS have released a moreish 2008 V&#038;A Lane Coonawarra Shiraz, so-named after the long straight road that was constructed in the late 1840s and which traditionally separates South Australia&#8217;s Coonawarra North from Coonawarra&#8217;s South.<\/p>\n<p>Winemaker Sarah Pidgeon has created a great drop with sweet red berry, plum and chocolate flavours, nicely supported with spicy oak\u2026 at $42.99 just the shot to linger with over a Sunday lunch of roast duck and baked vegies.<\/p>\n<p>(NEED A FOOD\/DRINK IDEA? Check out\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vintnews.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO CAPTIONS:<\/p>\n<p>[] SEAFOOD serenade\u2026 a Margaret River beauty with seafood dishes<\/p>\n<p>[] LINGER with this over a Sunday lunch of roast duck and baked vegies<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wc01Nov10 David Ellis PROLONGED periods of warm weather in Western Australia&#8217;s Margaret River in 2009, punctuated by short, cool and dry spells, gave growers and winemakers wonderfully slow-ripened fruit with great concentrations of flavour and natural grape acidity for their 2009 labels. Evans &#038; Tate have now-released three beautifully flavoured white wines from this vintage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,164,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coonawarra","category-semillon","category-shiraz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16132","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=16132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}