{"id":16314,"date":"2008-02-21T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/dry-argument-bears-fruit-2\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T22:35:00","slug":"dry-argument-bears-fruit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/02\/dry-argument-bears-fruit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DRY ARGUMENT BEARS FRUIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/R7387eWymcI\/AAAAAAAACmA\/nRMVcEfkSrM\/s1600-h\/Deakin+Estate+Moscato-788987.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/R7387eWymcI\/AAAAAAAACmA\/nRMVcEfkSrM\/s320\/Deakin+Estate+Moscato-788987.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/R738-eWymdI\/AAAAAAAACmI\/Oh7VvFSyza4\/s1600-h\/fimiston-700241.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/R738-eWymdI\/AAAAAAAACmI\/Oh7VvFSyza4\/s320\/fimiston-700241.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wc25Feb08<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>DRY ARGUMENT BEARS FRUIT<\/p>\n<p>david ellis<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>WHILE most growers in Western Australia&#8217;s Margaret River harvest<br \/>around four tonnes of grapes to the acre for their reds, at Brown Hill<br \/>Estate they&#8217;re generally lucky to get around one tonne.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a dry-grown vineyard, and in 2006 this coupled<br \/>with the coolest summer for a half century saw the Brown Hill<br \/>vineyards produce just 0.8 tonnes to the acre \u2013 something that<br \/>winemaker, Nathan Bailey was in fact delighted with.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our pursuit of dry-grown viticulture will always producer lower<br \/>yields than the norm,&#8221; Nathan says. &#8220;But we&#8217;re meticulous with out<br \/>vineyard management, so the 0.8 tonnes we got to the acre was good<br \/>fruit with 1.35-degrees Baume and ample ripeness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The resultant 2006 Brown Hill Fimiston Reserve Shiraz underwent<br \/>secondary malolactic fermentation in barrel, that Nathan says<br \/>integrated flavours better. The result is a wine with wonderful plum<br \/>and cherry flavours, nice velvety tannins and a bouquet of more-ish<br \/>rich cherry fruit with traces of dark chocolate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Good value at $25 to go with the Sunday roast.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>ONE FOR LUNCH:  An interesting low alcohol (just 5%) wine to enjoy as<br \/>an aperitif or with desserts is Deakin Estate&#8217;s 2007 Moscato; it&#8217;s<br \/>quite spritzy and a bit like biting into a fresh-picked green apple.<br \/>Good value at $10 to kick off that next party.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>BUY OF THE WEEK: Capel Vale has released a new range of early-drinking<br \/>West Australian wines aptly named Debut, the 2007 Verdelho a well<br \/>rounded drop with plenty of fruit flavours and tropical aromas. Pay<br \/>$17.95 and linger with it over roast duck.<\/p>\n<p>(Need a drink? We&#8217;re archived on <a href=\"http:\/\/vintnews.com\/\">http:\/\/vintnews.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>                                                     \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO CAPTIONS:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>BROWN Hill&#8217;s 2006 Fimiston Reserve Shiraz just right with the Sunday roast.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>LOW on alcohol, Deakin Estate&#8217;s 2007 Moscato is just 5% by alcohol,<br \/>but big on spritzy apple flavours.<\/p>\n<p>                                                       \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wc25Feb08 DRY ARGUMENT BEARS FRUIT david ellis WHILE most growers in Western Australia&#8217;s Margaret River harvestaround four tonnes of grapes to the acre for their reds, at Brown HillEstate they&#8217;re generally lucky to get around one tonne. That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a dry-grown vineyard, and in 2006 this coupledwith the coolest summer for a half century [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-16314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314","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=16314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}