{"id":6353,"date":"2011-08-15T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/rymill-team-beat-natures-adversities\/"},"modified":"2011-08-15T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:23:00","slug":"rymill-team-beat-natures-adversities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/08\/rymill-team-beat-natures-adversities\/","title":{"rendered":"RYMILL TEAM BEAT NATURE\u2019S ADVERSITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-8ZGtUmdlXXc\/TkphK9V0GFI\/AAAAAAAAPos\/Orat3VxkwyY\/s1600\/Brand%2527s%2BLaira%2BBlockers%2BCabernet%2BSauvignon-787234.JPG\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641428324127610962\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-8ZGtUmdlXXc\/TkphK9V0GFI\/AAAAAAAAPos\/Orat3VxkwyY\/s320\/Brand%2527s%2BLaira%2BBlockers%2BCabernet%2BSauvignon-787234.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">GOOD drop with artichoke<br \/>or sun-dried tomato dips.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Wc15Aug11<\/span><\/p>\n<p>David Ellis<\/p>\n<p>IT&#8217;S not often that a winemaker can say that from a vintage that most described as &#8220;challenging and trying,&#8221; they were delivered some of the best white fruit they&#8217;ve ever had to work with.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s what Rymill Coonawarra&#8217;s Sandrine Gimon had to say of fruit for the company&#8217;s 2011 The Yearling Sauvignon Blanc. &#8220;We had above average rainfall in winter, colder soil temperatures contributed to slow bud burst, and then heavy rains came during November and December,&#8221; Sandrine said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the vineyard crew worked through everything that Mother Nature threw at them.&#8221; And through their care, the result was that excellent fruit that Sandrine describes as &#8220;sassy, luscious and multi-dimensional,&#8221; and which has resulted in the 2011 The Yearling being richly Sauvignon Blanc varietal, with trademark Coonawarra vibrancy and lovely lemon and passionfruit flavours.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FUK1w08uLYw\/TkphLKuwaDI\/AAAAAAAAPo0\/nA89C0NpzT8\/s1600\/Rymill%2B2011%2BTheYearl%252349B625-788403.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641428327721887794\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FUK1w08uLYw\/TkphLKuwaDI\/AAAAAAAAPo0\/nA89C0NpzT8\/s320\/Rymill%2B2011%2BTheYearl%252349B625-788403.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">SHARE this with a<br \/>rosemary-infused leg of lamb.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Good value at $15 and a great appetiser wine to start a party with dips based on artichokes or sun-dried tomatoes, or to enjoy with most Thai dishes.<\/p>\n<p>ONE FOR LUNCH: LIKE many others in the 1950s and 60s, Eric Brand sold grapes from a block he owned in Coonawarra to the big Rouge Homme winery, and like those others was dubbed in the area a &#8220;Blocker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 1966 Eric went a step further releasing a wine under his own Brand&#8217;s Laira label, it and subsequent drops going on to become some of Coonawarra&#8217;s finest and most respected. And today under the guidance of winemaker Peter Weinburg that tradition continues, with Brand&#8217;s Laira just releasing a wonderful 2008 Blockers Cabernet Sauvignon from a vintage Peter says delivered fruit of exceptional quality.<\/p>\n<p>The wine is rich with intense blackberry\/blackcurrant fruit flavours, fine tannins and varietal spice; pay $24.99 and enjoy with a rosemary-infused leg of lamb.<\/p>\n<p>(NEED A FOOD\/DRINK IDEA? Check out\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintnews.com\/\">http:\/\/www.vintnews.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOOD drop with artichokeor sun-dried tomato dips. Wc15Aug11 David Ellis IT&#8217;S not often that a winemaker can say that from a vintage that most described as &#8220;challenging and trying,&#8221; they were delivered some of the best white fruit they&#8217;ve ever had to work with. But that&#8217;s what Rymill Coonawarra&#8217;s Sandrine Gimon had to say of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[406,392,389],"class_list":["post-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cabernet","tag-coonawarra","tag-sauvignon-blanc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","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=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}