{"id":1710,"date":"2010-11-16T23:02:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T23:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2010-11-16T23:02:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T23:02:31","slug":"a-remarkable-day-of-tasting-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/australia\/a-remarkable-day-of-tasting-wine","title":{"rendered":"A remarkable day of tasting wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today was one of those days where I had to pinch myself. How come a dude with an interest in wine and a hobby website can end up writing about the subject for a living? How is it that I’ve been fluky enough to land some very nice gigs? How come I get paid to do the sort of thing that in the past I would have paid to do?<\/p>\n

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Today began with a vertical tasting of Opus One, the famous Napa Valley wine that began in 1979 as a collaboration between Chateau Mouton Rothschild and Robert Mondavi. It was quite a formal event: I met with winemaker Michael Silacci (below<\/em>) and communications guy Roger Asleson in the formal settings of the Eton Suite at the Capital Hotel to taste through a range of vintages from 1987 to 2007.<\/p>\n

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Then it was off to family therapy. Long story. Then, back into town for a tasting I’d been looking forward to for a long time. It was a Wendouree-fest, put on by new UK merchant Find Wine<\/a>. Find Wine’s Martin Jeffery has accumulated the most amazing selection of wines from this cult Australian winery, and put on 14 for this tasting.<\/p>\n

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To taste 14 Wendouree wines is probably unprecedented in the UK, and I don’t suppose it happens very often in Australia. (Read more about Wendouree\u00a0here<\/a>.) They were thrillingly good, but also quite challenging. Wines for wine lovers.<\/p>\n

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Also showing at the Find Wine tasting were some seriously lovely offerings from elsewhere in Australia. Ferngrove from Frankland River in Western Australia; Dahlwhinnie from the Pyrenees in Victoria; Mount Mary from the Yarra; Adelina Estate’s brilliantly elegant Clare reds; and ex-pro cricketer Miles Corish’s (above<\/em>)superb Hunter Valley reds (Finch’s Line). It was a real treat, and will be written up in detail soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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