Australian Cuisine

Ron Lel

Thanks for the info Ron.

Yeah I've had some rather nice reds I vaguely recall from the Clare valley (I quite enjoyed a bottle of O'Leary Walker 2002 Pinot Noir from there the other day I actually thought it was in the Adelaide Hills until I looked in Halliday). Still in SA also Padthaway, Langhorne Creek, McLaren Vale, Riverland, Adelaide Hills all are areas I've enjoyed wines from. So SA is not just the Barossa I guess is the hot tip.

I am obviously not an industry expert, but I suspect the Barossa being the flagship region of Australian wine particuarly shiraz has fallen into the wine show trap of making wines specifically for shows and mbutt produced audiences. That is to say big on flavour fruit plant, short term drinking. When what, ~95% of Aus wines are drunk within 2 years, and wine judges are tasting hundreds of wines per day, I guess a fruit plant is the shortcut to big scores and mbutt sales.

Talking about WA, I've had a lot of nice wines, suprisingly to me reds included, from the Margaret River region WA, which seems to be taking off.