{"id":6638,"date":"2007-11-19T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/horror-harvests-benchmark-wine\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T04:40:00","slug":"horror-harvests-benchmark-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2007\/11\/horror-harvests-benchmark-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"HORROR HARVEST\u2019S BENCHMARK WINE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TIM Smith must have wondered if he\u2019d crossed a black cat enroute to his first vintage as Chief Winemaker at Chateau Tanunda in South Australia\u2019s Barossa Valley.<\/p>\n

After a highly-respected career with Yalumba, St Hallett and Tatachilla, and stints wine-making in Portugal and France, Tim arrived at Tanunda earlier this year to anything but what he\u2019d hoped would be a great vintage for his first wines under the company\u2019s label.<\/p>\n

First it was to be the Barossa\u2019s lowest-ever cropping vintage, and secondly it would be the earliest harvest in living memory, all brought about by severe frosts in October \u201906, then drought, and finally rain at a time when the Barossa is normally dry pre-harvest.<\/p>\n

The result was that what low crops were on the 80-year vines suddenly ripened and had to be harvested three weeks early, and while some offered up as little as a 20th their normal weight in fruit, careful bunch selection achieved fruit of exceptional flavour.<\/p>\n

And Tim\u2019s first wine from the vintage, his 2007 The Chateau Riesling is remarkably looking like being credited as something of a benchmark Riesling in the Valley: it has beautifully abundant lemon and lime aromas with hints of passionfruit, and on the palate a wonderfully juicy lime fruit finish with a crispy touch of minerality.<\/p>\n

At $18 it\u2019s a ripper to enjoy with seafood, but with its clean natural acid it\u2019ll also go down well with lightly spicy Thai Green Chicken, or even Sweet and Sour Pork.<\/p>\n


EXTRAORDINARY success: Chateau Tanunda\u2019s 2007 The Chateau Riesling.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TIM Smith must have wondered if he\u2019d crossed a black cat enroute to his first vintage as Chief Winemaker at Chateau Tanunda in South Australia\u2019s Barossa Valley. After a highly-respected career with Yalumba, St Hallett and Tatachilla, and stints wine-making in Portugal and France, Tim arrived at Tanunda earlier this year to anything but what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-6638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-barossa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638","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=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}