Friday night rituals. Ours usually starts with a tasting, a chat with locals, a cheese plate (truffle taleggio, coffee cheddar – anyone?), and a glass of something fabulous from Gill Gordon-Smith’s Fall From Grace wine bar / shop / education centre.
This is followed by a platter full of delights from Studio Voodoo at home by the fire with the wine dog and the wine cat keeping a mostly respectful distance.
Sometimes, we like a taste of our former home state.
Krinklewood Vineyard fits the bill.
Well Looky Here
Bright golden yellow. Sexy legs.
Sniff Sniff
Lemon curd on toast, with super-ripe faintly phoofey sliced peaches, and a cedar tree nearby.
Something fresh and zingy every few sniffs, like when you fold mandarin peel and it emits a spurt of oil.
Green almonds.
Sip Sip
Thick, mouth coating, viscous.
Ripe stone fruit. Lemonade, rather than lemon. Sweetness not totally cleaned up by the acid.
Lasting vanilla.
Gimme Gimme
$37.50 a bottle from Krinklewood Estate.
Alcohol: 12.7%
Closure: Stelvin.
Tasted: August 2015
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