Authenticity, individuality, personality and drinkability are the drivers of winemaking today. In its keystone regions of South Australia’s Barossa and McLaren Vale, it has been the tool to unlock the secrets of subdistrict, village and single-site diversity.Īnd now it is all that and much, much more. It has been a messenger for defining regionality. It was the frontline soldier during the years when extreme ripeness, vanilla-cream American oak and raw alcoholic power were, in hindsight, unlikely fashion statements. Over the past two decades, and especially in the past five years, it’s been recognised that shiraz can be a many splendoured thing and is able to deliver unlimited expressions from every corner of our winemaking landscape. Not surprisingly, given all those factors, shiraz is not the simple red monolith many imagine. Shiraz grows successfully north, south, east and west: yes, Queensland to Tasmania, New South Wales to Western Australia, South Australia to Victoria, on mountain slopes and along the great rivers, in sand, clay and volcanic ground. Retailers still marvel at its continued popularity, while exporters celebrate its stature as a global ambassador.
These statistics tell of its economic power domestically. Shiraz, that is.Ĭonsidered by many to be the most important wine grape in the country, it occupies 30 per cent of the national vineyard, and supplied close to a quarter of the total crush of all wine grapes in the 2018 vintage. Applications for the first year of its 2011/12 stu.Meet the big Australian.NEWEST WINE LOCATION SPECIALISTS ANNOUNCED.Parents’ Kid-Free Week in Healdsburg, CA.1WineDude TV Episode 34: Save The Children! Also.Zev Robinson interviewed by Luiz Alberto & Roy Her.NICOLAS PALAZZI -The SPIRIT of PM by Philip S.DON'T MISS THE GET REAL NY "BELGIAN BEER FESTIVAL.Wine Bloggers Conference - July 22-24, 2011 in Cha.Australia’s "new wine" is not Shiraz? So what is it?.Kid-Free Monday - Wine Tasting on Bikes? by Scott.Kid-Free Tuesday In & Near Healdsburg by Scott Kru.OLE Wine Portfolio Scores a "BULLSEYE" by Philip S.'HALL WINES from Napa are ORGANIC and SUSTAINABLE".
Why Terroir Matters – Blog by: Jordan Harris – Ta.JULIO VIOLA.PATAGONIA'S VISIONARY puts "BODEGA D.The wines are mineral, steely and elegant Riesling is the most important white grape (and wine) of the Eden Valley, developing strong lime juice and floral aromas, and with great intensity of flavors (lime zest, lime juice) on the palate, ultimately allied with touches of lightly browned toast as the wines age.Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in many places, none more than Coonawarra, with its Bordeaux climate and - just to confuse things - a limestone-based soil similar to that of Burgundy and Champagne, producing fluid, seamless, cassis, mulberry and blackcurrant wines Great Southern's Cabernet Sauvignon with imposing dark berry fruit, great structure, but seldom rough or tannic the multi-faceted, extremely complex Cabernet of Margaret River, typically with some Merlot as a blend (or bed) mate Langhorne Creek's supple, sotto voce wine in contrast to the masculine, sometimes macho, Cabernets of the Clare Valley, McLaren Vale and Barossa Valley (listed in descending order) the raw power of Central Victoria contrasting with the finesse of regions such as the Yarra Valley.Pinot noir from Tasmania, southern Victoria (from the Yarra Valley mainly) and (less consistently perhaps) the Adelaide Hills, which is consistently and wrongly assumed to be inferior of that of New Zealand, Oregon and Burgundy.
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