G'day
I'd love to hear more about a couple of the WA reds: the twin vintages of Fraser Gallop and Forest Hill Cabernets. I have 2 or more vintages of each of these wines in the cellar, and would like to know how the vintages mentioned are showing. I'm also assuming you looked at the standard FH, and not the Block 5, as this as not mentioned in the post.
Forest Hill (standard) was my house wine, both for reds (cabernet and shiraz) and whites (chardonnay, and some riesling) a few years ago when I could get them from a local at $17 a bottle by the case. The local in question is now a BWS, and there's no room on the shelves for FH any more. Tears were shed, and the local is no longer frequented.
For the record, the FH cellar door is in Denmark (and it a fabulous building, sadly, I don't think the excellent restaurant is open except for functions now), but the vineyard itself is closer to Mount Barker, and was actually the first experimental vineyard planted in the Great Southern (1965?). Obviously there was expansion after that, but the cellar door location is quite separate from the cellar door. There are a few like that in Denmark - Old Kent River springs to mind, where the cellar door (between Denmark and Walpole, near the coast) is totally separate from the vineyard (50km inland in Rocky Gully). There are others, and maybe it is a function of the geographical diversity of the region.
Oh dear - I digress. I believe this post had something to do with an offline in Brisbane?
Cheers
Allan
Wine, women and song. Ideally, you can experience all three at once.
