Friday, September 22, 2006

Wine wine wine!

so we headed to the barossa valley, home of many of australias best wines! ive not really done this before so was obviously a little shy of it

we checked into a lovely campsite for two days and then hit the town - first stop, Peter Lehman wines

as soon as we where through the door we where offered all sorts of wine. Basically you start with whites, then rose, then red, and maybe finish with some port ! its hilarious, thy are so pro and make you feel totally comfortable slugging away the wine

anyways, the followig day we hired bikes and toured the wineries and had the most perfect lnch at grant burge wines overlooking the hills with two free glasses of Rheisling

so, mainly for reasons of jouralism we managed to try about 5 billion wines, which are listed below and ones in caps are the ones we bought, and we've tried to list the year where we can rememeber it,

Peter Lehman
99 CAB FRANC - lovely !!!
02 shiraz muscadelle - ok
01 pinot noir - nice
04 cab merlot - lovely
98 black queen shiraz - gorge wine!
04 shiraz - lovely again

Langmeil
00 Hangin snake shiraz vognier (red/white) - very nice
04 SHIRAZ GREACHE MOUVERDERE (GSM) - lovely wine! purchased
96 port, gorge
01 port - good

Domain Barossa
choc liqueur - mmmmmmmm
04 rhesling - ok
?? chardonnay
deseert wine - sweet, not good
06 GSM - nice

Rockford wines
semillion white - nice
Rod and spur shiraz/cab
Rose - nice

Charles Melton
06 ROSE OF VIRGINIA gorge, and bought :-)
00 Laura shiraz - very nice indeed
04 shiraz - top notch this on
04 shiraz - very good

Kabminye (bit vague this one, can t remember much)
sparkling white pinot noir chardonnay - lovely
03 semmillion - nice
04 merlot
05 rheisling

Grant burge (great lunch stop)
sparkling pinot chardonay - lovely
03 semmillon
04 merlot - very nice
05 rheslig - ok

Bethany - lovely setting up on the hills
04 grenache - very nice
04 chardonnay - ok
02 SHIRAZ CABERNET - bought - soooooooo nice!
04 cab merlot - lovely too
03 shiraz - good

Stanley
semillon - nice
choc port - amazing !!! we met the women who made the recipe, so bloody nice!

Richmond grove
chardonnay pinot noir - lovely!
04 CAB MERLOT - bought, lovely
cab sav - nice

all in all a load of great wines, in great places and a top campsite - perfect couple of days really! 100% recomended to anyone

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