{"id":6553,"date":"2009-07-07T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/by-george-heres-a-cool-riesling-food-idea\/"},"modified":"2009-07-07T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T09:03:00","slug":"by-george-heres-a-cool-riesling-food-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/07\/by-george-heres-a-cool-riesling-food-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"BY GEORGE, HERE\u2019S A COOL RIESLING FOOD IDEA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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david ellis<\/p>\n

IF you enjoy white fish and a good white wine to go with it, you’ll not do better than to pan-fry some South Australian King George Whiting fillets and serve them up with a nicely chilled Riesling \u2013 its one of the great food\/wine matches of all-time.<\/p>\n

And one quite excellent drop for just such a match-up is Wicks Estate’s 2008 Riesling from the cooler Adelaide Hills: here’s a wine whose lime and citrus blossom aromas, and lively fruit-intense palate of citrus and tropical fruit and fine minerality, goes superbly with whiting.<\/p>\n

Simon and Tim Wicks, whose family long had horticultural interests in the foothills at Highbury, east-north-east of Adelaide, kick-started Wicks Estate in 1999 when they bought 54ha at Woodside, 10km north of Hahndorf.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It provided them with a range of soil types ideally suited for growing various varietals, including Riesling, and in 2004 they built a state-of-the-art winery, signed-up the highly-skilled and respected Tim Knappstein to make their wines for them\u2026 and as they say, the rest is now history.<\/p>\n

Pay $18 for the 2008 Wicks Estate Riesling, and treat family or friends to this and those pan-fried King George Whiting fillets \u2013 for good measure, topped-off with a stir-fry of diced mushrooms, asparagus, garlic, chives and almonds.<\/p>\n

ONE FOR LUNCH: A REWARDING red to savour with a hearty Winter’s leg of lamb is Poole’s Rock Firestick 2006 Hunter Valley McLaren Vale Shiraz, a wine sourced from these two premium grape-growing regions that whilst far-flung from each, in fact have much in common.<\/p>\n

That commonality is long growing seasons, mild temperatures and fertile soils that allow the grapes to develop full and intense flavours; this wine’s rich with spicy plum, blackberry and vanillin oak, ideal to go with that roast lamb\u2026 and even better still, it’s remarkably well-priced at just $12.95 a bottle.<\/p>\n

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

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[] AN all-time great food match: Riesling with King George Whiting fillets<\/p>\n

[] AT $12.95 here’s a bargain Shiraz with a Winter’s roast leg of lamb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wc06Jul09 david ellis IF you enjoy white fish and a good white wine to go with it, you’ll not do better than to pan-fry some South Australian King George Whiting fillets and serve them up with a nicely chilled Riesling \u2013 its one of the great food\/wine matches of all-time. And one quite excellent drop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[397,391],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-reisling","tag-shiraz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","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=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}