July August 2019

Winestate Magazine

A wine state of mind

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Briefs
THE Barossa Valley has welcomed a new cellar door for chocolate lovers. Barossa Valley Chocolate Company is the first combined chocolaterie and cellar door in South Australia’s most famous wine region. Located in the heart of the Barossa just outside
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Nzbriefs
AFTER the rather tricky conditions delivered by weather gods over the previous two harvests, the 2019 vintage’s grapes were brought into wineries amid a chorus of superlatives. “In a word: outstanding,” was the summary of Kumeu River’s usually unders
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Fizz Dominates As Production Bubbles Along
BREXIT or no Brexit (at the time of writing), the UK wine - production - industry is in full, gung-ho stance. The UK wine industry has without doubt been helped by what were record high harvest volumes in 2018. Mind you, record-high in the UK is kind
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Forces Of Nature
I’M writing this in April and again hearing stories about spring frost creating havoc in France. The Loire Valley has been hit for the third time in four years. On the nights of April 26 and 27, 2016, there was frost in Burgundy that severely reduced
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Editorial
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE MIX OF TASTINGS WE HAVE FOR YOU IN THIS ISSUE. It ranges from Organic wines to Cool Climate wines to Warm Climate value wines. What a smorgasbord! Firstly we offer a nice array of organic and biodynamic wines from our annual Winestat
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Great Danes Tap Into Brewing History
I VISITED the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen just before the iconic Danish beer maker moved its production facilities to Jutland in 2008. The historic weight of 160 years of brewing was everywhere. We passed under a gateway emblazoned with swastikas
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Those In The Knowe Choose Craigie
THE East Coast is one of Tasmania’s newest wine routes and also one of its most successful. The region is home to leading Tasmanian producers, including Devil’s Corner, Milton, Freycinet Vineyard, Gala Estate and Spring Vale, with the East Coast’s mi
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Finders Keepers
THE Sampson Flat bushfire in 2015 could easily have ended the dreams of Greg and Katrina Horner, who’d bought their 75ha Mt Bera property just seven years previously and had managed only six vintages before they were almost completely burnt out. “We
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Nurturing Spirits Of The Past
FOR many people who’ve heard of Glen Ewin Estate, their immediate impressions would be of wedding receptions and figs, and until a few years ago that would have been pretty much correct. But no longer. Glen Ewin is still, of course, one of South Aust
Winestate Magazine2 min readCooking, Food & Wine
Hong Kong Grapevine
ONE of Hong Kong’s iconic landmarks, Hullett House, has had a much needed facelift and has now unveiled itself as House 1881 with an eager new assortment of dining options to lure punters who wish to dine in stately surrounds. The flagship is Fortune
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DRAGON SEAL RESTAURANT & BAR
DRAGON SEAL is located on F101 of International Commerce Centre (ICC) in West Kowloon. As the third highest building in the world. For any type of activities or banquets, we can provide most suitable venue for you. Enjoying the charming seaview of Vi
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Brisbane Grapevine
WHEN chef/restaurateur Paul McGivern opens a venue Brisbane diners expect delicious simplicity on their plates. They also expect red-hot service, some of the best in town, and an inspired wine list with a strong leaning towards Burgundian-style wines
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Sydney Grapevine
WHEN I first tried to make a dinner reservation at Eliza Food & Wine soon after it opened, the only spots available were children’s meal times - 5.30pm to 6.30pm. Many of the regulars at Jeremy Bentley’s former one-hatted restaurant, The Devonshire,
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Melbourne Grapevine
CHEF Paul Cooper has returned home to Victoria and bought Bianchet Winery in the Yarra Valley, operating two venues within the space, to accommodate casual and more formal dining rooms. Cooper, who moved to Sydney in 2012 to open Bishop Sessa in Surr
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Adelaide Grapevine
HE’S one of Australia’s most celebrated chefs and a pioneer of Australian indigenous cuisine, with his landmark Adelaide restaurant Orana last year named as Australia’s best restaurant. But Jock Zonfrillo is also half Scottish and half Italian, and t
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Adelaide Hills
ONE of the most popular gourmet destinations in the Adelaide Hills is the Crafers Hotel, which was recognised as the best overall hotel in South Australia at the 2018 AHA|SA Hotel Industry Awards for Excellence. It then went on to take national honou
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Yarra Valley
IT has taken just a few years for Levantine Hill to become a Yarra Valley wine tourism icon. In addition to a superb range of wines crafted by former Yarra Yering winemaker Paul Bridgeman, there is an excellent tasting area, two eateries, sculpture g
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RIVER REGIONS - SA, VIC & NSW
FOR an authentic Murray River cruise in modern comfort, the iconic paddle steamer Emmylou has new deluxe cabins. While the historic Emmylou is powered by an authentic 1906 steam engine, the boat is thoroughly contemporary. The Emmylou Suite is the bo
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SWEET WHITE & FORTIFIED
6 TASTED 2 AWARDED The two wines reviewed here showed complexity and freshness of fruit with balanced acid to sugar. Those that did not make the grade were either stale or had a lack of fruit intensity. K1 by Geoff Hardy Adelaide Hills Autumn Harvest
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SOUTH ISLAND (NELSON & CANTERBURY)
CALLING wine lovers with a sense of adventure, or a love of solitude. The Greystone PurePod is set high above the award-winning Greystone vineyard, less than an hour north of Christchurch, in the heart of the Waipara Valley wine region. With the Tevi
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SOUTH ISLAND (NELSON & CANTERBURY)
Note: in a bid to reduce confusion in international markets, wineries based at Waipara, in North Canterbury, are increasingly labelling their wines as of North Canterbury, rather than Waipara (easily confused with Wairarapa, in the lower North Island
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Michael Cooper Recent Releases
Prices shown are approximate New Zealand retail. Wines available in export markets are shown as (A) Australia, (UK) and (US). Black Barn Concetta Sangiovese Montepulciano 2015 ★★★★★ Named after co-founder Concetta Lombardi, this ageworthy Hawke’s Bay
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The Comeback That Never Went Away
SEVERAL French philosophers have pronounced generalisations to be weak and dangerous from Montaigne to Alexandre Dumas. Fashion and trend writers don’t seem to have paid attention. Year-on-year they write that something is “over”, even when the derid
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How We Judge
WINESTATE MAGAZINE TASTING CRITERIA OUR STAR RATING SYSTEM Wines are invited from any producer, provided that they meet the criteria of the class being judged. The class may be a regional, style or new release tasting and generally the wines must be

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