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Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:38 pm**

Hi All,
I have to do a presentation on Barossa vs McLaren Vale Shiraz. Do any of you know any websites/papers that do a good comparison between the two. If so, please let me know, as it will be a huge help.
Cheers!

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:15 am**

Taste the same to me as most OZ wines.

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:09 am**

Cockney wrote:Taste the same to me as most OZ wines.

Another discerning palate ruined by too many pints of warm bitter ale...

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:13 am**

RedDog,

You should visit Warrabilla and meet your namesake (just had to slip that in for the anon poster). :twisted:

Here are a few links you can start with, it's not as easy to find this info as I thought, maybe others have better sources for you.

Wine Styles:
http://www.wineaustralia.com/global/Win ... .aspx?p=20

Barossa:
http://www.wineaustralia.com/Global/Reg ... p=19&wr=19

http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/coun ... sp?ID=1795

http://www.auswine.com.au/page.asp?PageID=42696

McLaren Vale:
http://www.wineaustralia.com/Global/Reg ... p=19&wr=26

http://www.winediva.com.au/regions/mclaren-vale.asp
http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/coun ... sp?ID=1806

d'Arenberg: http://www.darenberg.com.au/default2.php (Some useful info and the biggest range of wines/style in McLV)

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:35 am**

You're a gun RedBigot. Thanks a heap.

I had better change my name if Smithy's nickname is RedDog. I'll change it to RedPup.

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:43 am**

Anonymous wrote:You're a gun RedBigot. Thanks a heap.

I had better change my name if Smithy's nickname is RedDog. I'll change it to RedPup.

Maybe, maybe not, the Warrabilla Red Dog is the friendly old cellar door pooch, not smithy himself. :lol:

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:46 am**

Reddog
Your'e safe with the name .
Reddog is a 10 year old Queensland red Heeler.(and a warrabilla institution)
If he wants to fight you for the name i'd give it to him, but he's pretty good natured, and his typing sucks, so you should be right.

Cheers
Smithy

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:56 am**

I think I'm safe then for a few more years....you have to be over 13 years old to register don't you, and RedDog is only 10.

It is bloody hard to find a direct comparison paper/weblink on the Barossa v Vale. Interesting, considering the interest shown in the Shiraz from these two regions.

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:00 am**

Wasn't there a Winestate issue a few years ago about this very topic? I think it just reviewed wines from both regions but from memory they had a bit of a write up on the 2 regions with the broad individual differences.

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:29 am**

Long memory, this link indicates Nov/dec 2001, not details online though:
http://www.winestate.com.au/magazine/ar ... icleno=207

Barossa
http://www.winestate.com.au/magazine/ar ... ticleno=37

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:54 am**

Ric,

That was the issue! Didn't think it was that long ago. Boy time flys when your having fun.

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:55 am**

Sorry, that was me ..... and I did mean Brian. Sorry Brian. :oops:

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:15 pm**

apjordan wrote:Sorry, that was me ..... and I did mean Brian. Sorry Brian.

No Probs, a few people think we are the split personalities of the same person, others seem to think there is a horde of us aging baldies out there. ;-)

I had a look through my selective stack of Winestate back issues, I keep a few for posterity, back to about 88/89, but not the Nov/Dec 2001. :-(

Some one will no doubt have a copy...