{"id":6480,"date":"2010-07-25T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/southern-highlands-wines-a-worthy-fling\/"},"modified":"2010-07-25T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T23:18:00","slug":"southern-highlands-wines-a-worthy-fling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/07\/southern-highlands-wines-a-worthy-fling\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS WINES A WORTHY FLING"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Ellis<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>EARLY settlers looking beyond the confines of the Sydney basin and who ventured south to the high country of the-now NSW Southern Highlands, included grape growing amongst crops there as far back as the 1870s.<\/p>\n

They didn’t get far, particularly with the cold winters, but a century of so later and armed with more knowledge, skills and facilities than those early settlers, landowners once more turned their attention to grape growing \u2013 and this time with considerable success for themselves, and great rewards for wine buffs.<\/p>\n

There are now over a dozen wineries in the Southern Highlands turning out highly commendable cool-climate wines that are fitting accompaniments to the products of the kitchens of the region’s stand-out restaurants, alfresco coffee shops, country pubs and bistros that attract Sunday drivers and those looking for a long-weekend to this picturesque “little bit of England” so close to Sydney (its about 1.5hrs drive down the M5 expressway.) <\/p>\n

One of the larger wineries is Southern Highland Wines who’ve a modern Cellar Door at Sutton Forest. Ask there, or local Highlands eateries and liquor outlets, for\u00a0 their 2008 Pinot Noir that’s a nice example of this often difficult-to-handle variety, with this one having nice blackberry, plum and wood-like flavours, and even suggestions of ripe tomatoes.\u00a0 At $24 team it with a good roast dinner \u2013 turkey, pork or duck are ideal match-makers.<\/p>\n

ONE FOR LUNCH: ANOTHER maker whose history goes back to the later part of the 19th century is Leasingham, founded in the 1890s by four business partners who converted a one-time jam factory into a winery to handle fruit from Clare Valley orchardists turning to grape-growing. Now, 120 years later, Leasingham have released a Jam Shed label honouring the venture \u2013 their 2009 Jam Shed Riesling being a great buy at $19.99, and its juicy lemon and lime flavours a perfect partner with pan-fried whiting fillets, a light salad and crunchy warm sour dough.<\/p>\n

(NEED A FOOD\/DRINK IDEA? Check out\u00a0 http:\/\/www.vintnews.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n

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[] SOUTHERN Highlands’ Winemaker, Eddy Rossi creating commendable cool-climate rewards.<\/p>\n

[] GETTING out of a jam: label honours Clare Valley pioneers who went from jam to winemaking.<\/p>\n

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Wc26July10\u00a0 David Ellis EARLY settlers looking beyond the confines of the Sydney basin and who ventured south to the high country of the-now NSW Southern Highlands, included grape growing amongst crops there as far back as the 1870s. They didn’t get far, particularly with the cold winters, but a century of so later and armed […]<\/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-6480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480","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=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}