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It's the phenolics in the white grapes (well their skins more specifically), that are sought - Viognier has these in spades when very ripe and this aids in colour extraction and a few other bits and pieces with Shiraz. The same goes with Riesling, and I know of a Margaret River winery that added som...

Paul et al I'm sorry to say but Adelaide is too tough to get done this year - simply too much to do before I head off to Melb / Sydney. The problem with doing all the work on the vines as well as trying to promote the wines. If I get across to Adelaide later in the year I'll put out a call for an of...

Melbourne is nearly booked out, and Sydney has a few spots left (even though there may be a major celebrity attending ). Please don't wait until the last minute if you are interested - you may miss out. Getting closer to securing an Adelaide event, if I can secure a minimum of 10 bookings I'll get e...

2002 was a difficult vintage in Margaret River (I'm assuming that this Sandalford is a MR wine, they have dabbled elsewhere). You may need to wait for a "window" for this wine which may be very frustrating, but possibly rewarding...

Cheers

Mark G

Well I've been trawling through the options and apart from The Manse as the only French option ... it appears extremely expensive for what it is. The only restaurant that I could find with my rudimentary knowledge of ADL was "Vincenzo's Cucina Vera" - looked good value, helpful staff from ...

Well that's five - we have a few Adelaideans on our mailing list I'll send a direct email to see if they would be interested.

Now for a restaurant - suggestions? I'll have a look as well.

Cheers

Mark G

Paul Well I'd have to find a restaurant prepared to match the wines for us - but if there was a minimum of 10 I'd use up some flyer points and drop across for you all. Should still be under a $100, and as with Franco's Hoddles Creek night (which is an excellent night, went to the Perth evening), it ...

All Gavin has kindly allowed us to promote our dinners in Melbourne and Sydney to celebrate the upcoming release of the 2007 Blue Poles Allouran. The dinners provide everyone with the opportunity to taste the history of our vineyard in context with the spiritual home of our wines, France. I'll be th...

Mark G, there's plenty for you to see. I don't have it to ahnd, but the Tour edition of RIDE magazine lists all the days that will be broadcast by SBS1, and SBS2, and there's massive overlap. Actually, SBS web-site will have details - I think you'll be happy with what you'll see. Agree re: the Schl...

...you'd better also stock up with bottles of French water for those long stretches in the breakaways... The team time trials look interesting - we only really started watching attentively three years ago, so haven't seen one in the TdF yet. Dave. Last one I saw Dave Zabriskie crash out on the last...

Or match the wine with the nationality of the Yellow Jersey rider? This could be very interesting, particularly in the early stages before the favourites really come into contention. With the prologue and then some flat stages early on it could be hard to find the required wine. Some of the early y...

The WineAus website only outlines future events. Lets start basic, can anyone please tell me if there were any major festivals or exhibitions (or anything similar) during 2008? Im looking for anything that could have drawn extra attention to the wine market. No, not a thing in 2008. It had us all s...

Tom, If you're serious about this then you'd need to contact fellow Pinot producers and wine makers to get the following. Personally I'd have a chat to David Lloyd from Eldridge Estate in the Mornington. He was with GW on winorama for a while, and he is heavily involved with all the pinot activites ...

An interesting question Sam, but you may have the wrong end of the stick when it comes to the resultant wine. The number of seeds within a wine grape varies with the flowering conditions - windy and uneven conditions you may only get 1-2 seeds per berry, but if everything is clear and easy every ber...

Woah! 6 x 2005 Hill of Grace Enjoy. Blew my budget on Blue Poles (hopefully, just waiting on response from Mark ) Cheers and happy holidays jeremy They're on their way - you made a very fine choice, I can only but commend you on your very good taste Look forward to your thoughts. cheers Mark G

For a reviewer he is doing everyone in the industry a disservice ... break down the current tasting notes: The 6 Penfolds on the 14th March - oh hurrah, someone tasted them for us 4 pricey Rhones in what appears to be a formal tasting of 7-8 wines 1 Yellow Tail Shiraz and a random assortment So out ...

D'oh

we're Blue Poles Vineyard if anyone hasn't followed any of my posts in the past ...

Cheers

Mark G

We don't have a cellar door as such, but are open by appointment for those who may be interested. We'll be in all weekend with grapes still on the vines and odd jobs to do - so if anyone is down and is interested in tasting some excellent boutique wine drop me a PM and we'll do our best to accommoda...

We've got our first vintage of Teroldego this year, a red variety from the NE hills of Italy. Quite exciting as it is such a rare variety and we're not quite sure just how to treat it ... with kid gloves I suppose I have heard there is a bottle or two in the eastern states, must try and chase one do...

Where did the Vasse Felix temp grapes come from? And I will leave it at that. cheers Carl Do tell.........if Vasse Felix have no/limited tempranillo of it's own, it's entirely possible that the Fosters supplied at least some of the fruit used by Vasse Felix to produce it's tempranillo. That wouldn'...

Cheers Daz Good to put a face to a name and to enjoy a pleasant meal in balmy Townsville. The meal was pretty good but they could do with some presentation skills and avoid putting melted feta on top of foccaccia! As always, cork rears its ugly head and destroys 2 known to be very good wines - bloom...

Four daughters that will eventually bankrupt me (.. or the vineyard, whichever comes first). Daughter 1: 1989 Ch Gazin Daughter 2: 1991 Pasquera Tinto Crianza + 1x HoG Daughter 3: 1994 Ch Pichon Lalande Daughter 4: 1997 4x 1er Cru Sauternes 1994 and 1997 were tough years to get decent ones, but have...

For the past month or so I've been in Perth quite a bit for work as a consultant. One of the perks of the job is that often I'm taken out for boozey lunches and dinners with various company heavy weights and with my interest in wine I'm often asked to choose the plonk. The last trip up I was shouted...

True Blue wrote:Just wondering who the first winemaker will be that will call this year, "vintage of the decade'". At least this year we will know they really are bullshitting!

It may well be in Margaret River ...

They're cactus. A really profitable WA winery decided to list and buy into cheap branded wine from the east and in doing so sells all their assets - completely outside of their knitting and any relationship to commonsense. Will be a big hit on the regions growers when they get put into receivership ...

Ye gawds this is hilarious, thanks Ian for the link. In the land of the twee an american has just resolved that high posting Parker wines that he covets ahead of all is actually more expensive that wine with lower Parker scores. Golly what a genius ... but don't fret the BB is rallying with cheaper ...

JamieBahrain wrote:You can do better than that Torb. St Joseph details?

The wine was a 1996 Saint Joseph - Tardieau Laurent (Rhone, FRA).

Cheers

Mark G

Margaret River must be one the unsung heroes of Australian wine regions. LEAS, Cullen, MS, Pierro, Voyager, HP, Devil's Lair etc etc... Does it rank 2nd to Barossa for Australia's best wine region ????? !! Hard to say it's unsung, but to say it's "second" to anywhere in aus must be your way of havi...

Anonymous wrote:Price of grapes worth nothing and they are putting their prices up at will. What a rip off.None for me!!!

Completely irrelavent - I can't even be bothered explaining this...

Burrito Agree generally with brad, but with some specifics for you. Most whites came off very well due to a slow start to the season and little in the way of heat spikes ... some chardonnays picked in mid March will be excellent. The reds will be a mixed bunch as brad alluded to. Any reds picked pri...