Discover the ultimate cellar door experience at over 50 boutique and iconic wineries in South Australia’s famous wine regions, including Adelaide and Adelaide Hills, Barossa, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale, Currency Creek, Langhorne Creek, Coonawarra and the Mount Benson wine regions.
Inclusions:
* Cellar Door Pass
* Wine Discovery CD
* A South Australia Cellar Door directory
* GST (Goods and Services Tax)
* Conducted in English
With the Cellar Door Pass you will receive:
* Premium wine tastings, winery tours and other special offers for up to two people
* A Cellar Door Pass wine carton to hold up to 12 standard bottles of wine
* Home delivery of your 12 bottle wine carton to any address in Australia
* Transit insurance up to AUD $240.00
* AUD $20 reward voucher for each additional 6 bottles of wine you purchase
* Wine Discovery CD featuring tips, facts and winemaker interviews
* A South Australia Cellar Door directory to guide you through your journey
* A smart card to help you access all your benefits
The Cellar Door Pass is valid for 12 months. Note: The Winery Tours and Wine Tastings included are for up to two people. Only required to purchase one pass to take advantage of these offers that are valid for 2 people.
Itinerary:
Once you have purchased your Cellar Door Pass, you can experience the special offers and collect your 6 Bottles of wine from 6 different Cellar Doors listed below.
Fleurieu Peninsula
* Rosemont Estate
* Foggo Wines – plus 2 ‘hands on’ winery tour
* Shingleback Wines
* Parri Estate
* Hugo Wines
* D’Arenberg Wines
* Wira Wira Vineyard
* Chapel Hill
* Currency Creek Estate Wines
* Ballast Stone Estate
* Bleasdale Vineyards
* Bremerton Wines
* Angas Plains Wines/Clegget Wines/Oddfellows Wines/Rayden Estate Wines
* Currency Creek Estate Restaurant – redeem AUD $20.00 voucher for credit towards bill
* Blessed Cheese – redeem AUD $20.00 voucher for credit towards bill
Please Note: Inclusions may change without notice
Monday 21 December 2009
Stars to visit South Australia in 2010
The South Australia Tourism Commission has revealed that 'a host of stars' will be visiting the state in 2010, giving travellers more reasons to visit the 'diverse, surprising and beautiful' region.
There will be plenty to interest music fans, with Ronan Keating set to be one of the headline acts at the McLaren Vale Festival.
Leconfield Winery on the Fleurieu peninsula will provide the venue for this event, which will take place on 30 January.
There will be plenty to interest music fans, with Ronan Keating set to be one of the headline acts at the McLaren Vale Festival.
Leconfield Winery on the Fleurieu peninsula will provide the venue for this event, which will take place on 30 January.
Thursday 10 December 2009
Putting South Australia back in focus
DIRECTOR Scott Hicks's new movie The Boys are Back will prove especially evocative for expat South Aussies as the screen fills with summer, hot and dry; with long beaches where sand merges with a glistening horizon and with quiet coves cuffed by flaxen hills.
But this is no Australia epic, rather an intimate and very charming ensemble piece that just happens to make a star of South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula.
Stretching from the rolling vineyards of the McLaren Vale south to Cape Jervis, taking in a sweep of beautiful beaches and at times a dramatic and inaccessible coastline, the Fleurieu also reaches east across verdant farming country to the historic river port of Goolwa.
It is South Australia's summer playground, crammed with McShacks in parts, but in many ways calling to mind a more old-fashioned style of holiday when white-bread sandwiches, slapping on the zero factor tanning oil and cooling off under the sprinkler were all OK. At Aldinga you can still drive on to the beach (an issue of some contention at the moment) and, on searing hot summer afternoons, bathers await the late dusk to deliver a sea breeze, erecting striped tents, dinner tables and cricket wickets around their cars, like some sort of zinc-daubed nomadic tribe.
Across the peninsula at Goolwa, hub of a small wooden-boat industry, a 19th-century paddle steamer is docked at the river wharf where the Steam Exchange microbrewery, located in the old railway goods shed, crafts a canny selection of brews, including the rather good India Pale Ale. From this dock, suitably fortified, visitors can explore the Coorong and Lower Lakes.
This is a part of the world Hicks knows well. He began his career here as a runner on Storm Boy, which was filmed in the Coorong, and he and his wife, producer Kerry Heysen, have a beach house overlooking the Southern Ocean and a vineyard not too far away in the Adelaide Hills.
"The Boys are Back was an opportunity for me to set a story I love into a landscape I love and understand and feel a part of," Hicks says.
"I've always been fascinated by the hills near Willunga. My first feature film, Freedom, had its climax set in those hills ... it is something to do with their rounded shape, the way that the light falls on them late in the day; they are sculptural and seductive."
Cinematographer Greig Fraser's camera certainly loves them, lingering on the golden, wind-whipped grass and the voluptuous fall of the dry land to the movie's quaint homestead set or tiny Myponga Beach.
A summer holiday on the Fleurieu can be many things, from the fashionable enclaves of Port Elliot and Middleton (where fish and chips, served in paper cones, washed down with a chilled McLaren Vale ros aac on the beach in front of The Flying Fish Cafe are mandatory), to mucking about in boats on the river near Goolwa, surfing the sometimes big swells near Victor Harbor, or dropping out in the quieter towns of Normanville and Myponga.
Add to this a lively food and wine culture - the Willunga Farmers Market is one of the best in the country - and it's easy to understand the allure of a region where vine meets sea.
Accommodation ranges the gamut but the new digs of choice are at the Australasian, a circa 1858 pub in downtown Goolwa where proprietors Juliet Michell and Deborah Smalley have effected a stunning makeover to provide a boutique hotel that operates more like a private club.
The Australasian boasts an outstanding DVD library (Smalley is a self-confessed movie addict) specialising in Australian, New Zealand, Asian and cult classics. (Hicks would be pleased to see Shine heading the large catalogue.) With just five guestrooms and a private dining room (open to the public Saturday nights), The Australasian makes the perfect Fleurieu bolthole, providing buckets of style but with an emphasis on comfort.
During an exhaustive six-year renovation the hotel was all but rebuilt within its historic shell. The tiny, 19th-century cell-like bedrooms were knocked together to offer individually decorated suites, all with a contemporary Asian sensibility: deep tubs set on raised platforms, Chinese armoires concealing high-definition televisions, mirrored mini-bars stocked with South Aussie wines and, in some rooms, open fires fitted with eco-smart burners.
Throughout the light and airy hotel (two decks give town and river views), the walls are hung with beautiful Japanese kimono and obi, part of Michell's private collection, and her passion for Japanese culture is reflected throughout, from the neatly folded yukata on the bed and Japanese beer in the minibar to the copper rain chains decorating the building's honey-stoned exterior. There's even a small Japanese-themed garden planted with the spiny sedge that's used by the region's Ngarrindjeri women for weaving.
While the hotel was being renovated, Michell used what little spare time she had to train as a chef and her food is very good, served in a groovy, ground-floor dining room and bar that would not look out of place on Shanghai's Bund.
Not surprisingly the Mod Oz table d'hote menus are Asian themed. On the evening that I visit, Japanese soup with steamed prawn balls is followed by a tender orange and miso-marinated duck (served with edamame, black beans and garlic stems) and green tea pannacotta.
The South Australian wine list is well considered; Rockfords Frugal Farmer, somewhere between a ros aac and a red, served chilled, is an excellent addition.
Breakfast is delivered on an old-fashioned trolley (the poached eggs snug under proper silver domes) and popped in the room without intrusion. The Australasian is located downtown with a bottle shop next door, the quaint cottages of Little Scotland across the road and the pretty Goolwa wharf a five-minute walk away. It's a good base from which to explore nearby Port Elliot and Victor Harbor (where one of the world's last horse-drawn trams operates across to Granite Island) or forage among the Fleurieu's many excellent restaurants. Vine-side try Fino in Willunga, The Kitchen Door at Pennys Hill winery and d'Arrys Verandah, perched hilltop in the d'Arenberg cellar door. Waterfront, look no further than a fish pasty or bowl of cockles at the bustling Aquacaf, spilling out of an old kiosk on Goolwa's Barrage Road.
Port Elliot's Flying Fish has a smart beachfront dining room as well as a take-out cafe while the jaunty Star of Greece, perched above the cliff-cuffed sands of beautiful Port Willunga, doles out wiggling fresh squid caught on the beach below.
Restaurants and tourists thin out as you head south to Myponga Beach, on to Carrickalinga (offering great views of the South Coast) and the very charming Normanville. Top to bottom, the Peninsula is crisscrossed by narrow country roads; old farmhouses are set among rambling roses, deep gullies are planted with elm and poplar and hillsides dotted with dairy herds. And then there are the vines sweeping to the sea.
Two of the characters in The Boys are Back own a vineyard, a deliberate Hicks conceit. "To give them [the characters Barbara and Tom] an occupation I understood, running a vineyard, was great," Hicks says.
The vineyard concerned, DogRidge, has a seven-day cellar door operation on Bagshaws Road, McLaren Flat. Together with his beachhouse, Hicks's vineyard, Yacca Paddock, serves as a sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of the international film business.
"Coming back here is very important to the creative process," he says. "Travelling so much can be disintegrating; you have to feel centred somewhere."
Raised in Africa and England, arriving in South Australia when he was 14, Hicks has found that centre on the Fleurieu.
Christine McCabe was a guest of the South Australian Tourism Commission
But this is no Australia epic, rather an intimate and very charming ensemble piece that just happens to make a star of South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula.
Stretching from the rolling vineyards of the McLaren Vale south to Cape Jervis, taking in a sweep of beautiful beaches and at times a dramatic and inaccessible coastline, the Fleurieu also reaches east across verdant farming country to the historic river port of Goolwa.
It is South Australia's summer playground, crammed with McShacks in parts, but in many ways calling to mind a more old-fashioned style of holiday when white-bread sandwiches, slapping on the zero factor tanning oil and cooling off under the sprinkler were all OK. At Aldinga you can still drive on to the beach (an issue of some contention at the moment) and, on searing hot summer afternoons, bathers await the late dusk to deliver a sea breeze, erecting striped tents, dinner tables and cricket wickets around their cars, like some sort of zinc-daubed nomadic tribe.
Across the peninsula at Goolwa, hub of a small wooden-boat industry, a 19th-century paddle steamer is docked at the river wharf where the Steam Exchange microbrewery, located in the old railway goods shed, crafts a canny selection of brews, including the rather good India Pale Ale. From this dock, suitably fortified, visitors can explore the Coorong and Lower Lakes.
This is a part of the world Hicks knows well. He began his career here as a runner on Storm Boy, which was filmed in the Coorong, and he and his wife, producer Kerry Heysen, have a beach house overlooking the Southern Ocean and a vineyard not too far away in the Adelaide Hills.
"The Boys are Back was an opportunity for me to set a story I love into a landscape I love and understand and feel a part of," Hicks says.
"I've always been fascinated by the hills near Willunga. My first feature film, Freedom, had its climax set in those hills ... it is something to do with their rounded shape, the way that the light falls on them late in the day; they are sculptural and seductive."
Cinematographer Greig Fraser's camera certainly loves them, lingering on the golden, wind-whipped grass and the voluptuous fall of the dry land to the movie's quaint homestead set or tiny Myponga Beach.
A summer holiday on the Fleurieu can be many things, from the fashionable enclaves of Port Elliot and Middleton (where fish and chips, served in paper cones, washed down with a chilled McLaren Vale ros aac on the beach in front of The Flying Fish Cafe are mandatory), to mucking about in boats on the river near Goolwa, surfing the sometimes big swells near Victor Harbor, or dropping out in the quieter towns of Normanville and Myponga.
Add to this a lively food and wine culture - the Willunga Farmers Market is one of the best in the country - and it's easy to understand the allure of a region where vine meets sea.
Accommodation ranges the gamut but the new digs of choice are at the Australasian, a circa 1858 pub in downtown Goolwa where proprietors Juliet Michell and Deborah Smalley have effected a stunning makeover to provide a boutique hotel that operates more like a private club.
The Australasian boasts an outstanding DVD library (Smalley is a self-confessed movie addict) specialising in Australian, New Zealand, Asian and cult classics. (Hicks would be pleased to see Shine heading the large catalogue.) With just five guestrooms and a private dining room (open to the public Saturday nights), The Australasian makes the perfect Fleurieu bolthole, providing buckets of style but with an emphasis on comfort.
During an exhaustive six-year renovation the hotel was all but rebuilt within its historic shell. The tiny, 19th-century cell-like bedrooms were knocked together to offer individually decorated suites, all with a contemporary Asian sensibility: deep tubs set on raised platforms, Chinese armoires concealing high-definition televisions, mirrored mini-bars stocked with South Aussie wines and, in some rooms, open fires fitted with eco-smart burners.
Throughout the light and airy hotel (two decks give town and river views), the walls are hung with beautiful Japanese kimono and obi, part of Michell's private collection, and her passion for Japanese culture is reflected throughout, from the neatly folded yukata on the bed and Japanese beer in the minibar to the copper rain chains decorating the building's honey-stoned exterior. There's even a small Japanese-themed garden planted with the spiny sedge that's used by the region's Ngarrindjeri women for weaving.
While the hotel was being renovated, Michell used what little spare time she had to train as a chef and her food is very good, served in a groovy, ground-floor dining room and bar that would not look out of place on Shanghai's Bund.
Not surprisingly the Mod Oz table d'hote menus are Asian themed. On the evening that I visit, Japanese soup with steamed prawn balls is followed by a tender orange and miso-marinated duck (served with edamame, black beans and garlic stems) and green tea pannacotta.
The South Australian wine list is well considered; Rockfords Frugal Farmer, somewhere between a ros aac and a red, served chilled, is an excellent addition.
Breakfast is delivered on an old-fashioned trolley (the poached eggs snug under proper silver domes) and popped in the room without intrusion. The Australasian is located downtown with a bottle shop next door, the quaint cottages of Little Scotland across the road and the pretty Goolwa wharf a five-minute walk away. It's a good base from which to explore nearby Port Elliot and Victor Harbor (where one of the world's last horse-drawn trams operates across to Granite Island) or forage among the Fleurieu's many excellent restaurants. Vine-side try Fino in Willunga, The Kitchen Door at Pennys Hill winery and d'Arrys Verandah, perched hilltop in the d'Arenberg cellar door. Waterfront, look no further than a fish pasty or bowl of cockles at the bustling Aquacaf, spilling out of an old kiosk on Goolwa's Barrage Road.
Port Elliot's Flying Fish has a smart beachfront dining room as well as a take-out cafe while the jaunty Star of Greece, perched above the cliff-cuffed sands of beautiful Port Willunga, doles out wiggling fresh squid caught on the beach below.
Restaurants and tourists thin out as you head south to Myponga Beach, on to Carrickalinga (offering great views of the South Coast) and the very charming Normanville. Top to bottom, the Peninsula is crisscrossed by narrow country roads; old farmhouses are set among rambling roses, deep gullies are planted with elm and poplar and hillsides dotted with dairy herds. And then there are the vines sweeping to the sea.
Two of the characters in The Boys are Back own a vineyard, a deliberate Hicks conceit. "To give them [the characters Barbara and Tom] an occupation I understood, running a vineyard, was great," Hicks says.
The vineyard concerned, DogRidge, has a seven-day cellar door operation on Bagshaws Road, McLaren Flat. Together with his beachhouse, Hicks's vineyard, Yacca Paddock, serves as a sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of the international film business.
"Coming back here is very important to the creative process," he says. "Travelling so much can be disintegrating; you have to feel centred somewhere."
Raised in Africa and England, arriving in South Australia when he was 14, Hicks has found that centre on the Fleurieu.
Christine McCabe was a guest of the South Australian Tourism Commission
'Kami no Shizuku' hails Aussie winery
MCLAREN VALE, Australia — The hugely popular comic book series "Kami no Shizuku" ("Drops of God") that follows the international adventures of two brothers in pursuit of the perfect wine was largely unknown in Australia.
That was until one of the country's oldest wineries got a mention.
The "manga," approaching its fifth year of publication, is penned by the brother and sister team Shin and Yuko Kibayashi, who write under the pseudonym Tadashi Agi.
It appears weekly in Morning magazine, and the story line reads like a wine enthusiasts' ultimate fantasy. Acclaimed wine critic Yutaka Kanzaki dies, leaving a ¥2 billion collection that will be inherited by the son who fulfills his cryptic quest to find the world's best wines.
The plot sees our hero, Shizuku Kanzaki, pitted against his adopted brother, Issei Toomine, as they battle it out to locate 13 of the finest wines ever produced.
In his will, Kanzaki states that the brothers must first find 12 wines known as the "12 Apostles" and finally uncover the greatest wine on Earth, dubbed the "Drops of God."
As the adventure unfolds, the pair travel to the world's esteemed wine regions, particularly in France. But recently they paid a visit to the lush hills of McLaren Vale, in South Australia, an area renowned for its reds.
Here Kanzaki tries a wine called Laughing Magpie, 2006 Shiraz Viognier, which is produced by d'Arenberg Wines, located 40 km south of Adelaide.
Established in 1912, d'Arenberg is a 450-hectare family-owned winery that combines time-honored European traditions with Aussie ingenuity.
Kanzaki describes the Laughing Magpie 2006 as "very good. I didn't expect much from a wine under a screw cap . . . it's spicy and overflowing with energetic life . . . it's both exotic and made for normal people at the same time."
Chester Osborn, chief winemaker and great-grandson of founder Joseph Osborn, agrees wholeheartedly with Kanzaki's description.
While Japan still prefers old world, European wines sealed with cork, the vast majority of wines in Australia are now sealed with screw caps.
Osborn's father, D'Arry, managing director of d'Arenberg Wines, strongly advocates their use.
"Screw caps are a much better closure for our types of wine because they keep the freshness and the wines mature beautifully," the gentle elder Osborn said.
Chester Osborn said he knew the 2006 vintage of Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier was going to be special because of ideal conditions that year.
The experienced winemaker said a wet winter, spring and further rain in summer encouraged the grass to flourish between the vines.
This grass acts as competition for the vines and leads to a better balance of nutrients and more refined color and flavor.
With an average yield of 3.8 tons per hectare, Osburn said d'Arenberg Wines rivals the finest Grand Cru of Burgundy and Bordeaux in terms of low-yield, high-quality vines.
Chester, 47, and his father, 82, admit they'd never heard of manga before "Kami no Shizuku" but were proud to be featured in it.
Chester believes the comic book style enables more "personality" to be injected into a wine.
"It adds more fun, of course it's not just a technical review, it's not just a wine columnist's opinion, instead it's someone from the real world wanting to do it in a very humorous way," Osburn said at his McLaren Vale winery.
A good review in this manga series sends its 360,000 weekly readers into a frenzy and sparks a mad rush to snap up bottles of the featured wine.
Also published in South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and France, a mere mention in "Kami no Shizuku" can provide a substantial boost to a company's wine sales.
Even before the "Kami no Shizuku" installment hit the stands, all bottles of the Laughing Magpie 2006 Shiraz Viognier were sold out in Japan.
Kyobashi Wine Liquor Shop, an online wine seller, snapped up the last 120 bottles after it learned the wine was included in "Kami no Shizuku."
The online shop has a page dedicated to wines featured in the manga.
Wataru Takeno, who manages the Australian wine category for the online store, said the manga has definitely raised interest in Laughing Magpie 2006, which falls into the higher end price category.
"The 120 bottles sold in a month is a very good result for wine (in the) ¥3,000 price (range) and for Australian wine," Takeno said.
Richard Cohen, 59, d'Arenberg's Japanese importer, believes the manga is so popular in Japan because of the lack of Japanese-language wine reviews.
"There's so much wine from all over the world in Japan and there's not much press in Japanese, most of it is in English," Cohen said.
He said "Kami no Shizuku" has a unique way of informing people which wines are worth trying.
Now published in four languages, the manga continues to educate and entertain wine drinkers across the globe.
Its publisher, Kodansha, said it has been inundated with inquiries about an English-language version.
The company said it hopes to put one out in the near future.
By KEDE LAWSON
Kyodo News
That was until one of the country's oldest wineries got a mention.
The "manga," approaching its fifth year of publication, is penned by the brother and sister team Shin and Yuko Kibayashi, who write under the pseudonym Tadashi Agi.
It appears weekly in Morning magazine, and the story line reads like a wine enthusiasts' ultimate fantasy. Acclaimed wine critic Yutaka Kanzaki dies, leaving a ¥2 billion collection that will be inherited by the son who fulfills his cryptic quest to find the world's best wines.
The plot sees our hero, Shizuku Kanzaki, pitted against his adopted brother, Issei Toomine, as they battle it out to locate 13 of the finest wines ever produced.
In his will, Kanzaki states that the brothers must first find 12 wines known as the "12 Apostles" and finally uncover the greatest wine on Earth, dubbed the "Drops of God."
As the adventure unfolds, the pair travel to the world's esteemed wine regions, particularly in France. But recently they paid a visit to the lush hills of McLaren Vale, in South Australia, an area renowned for its reds.
Here Kanzaki tries a wine called Laughing Magpie, 2006 Shiraz Viognier, which is produced by d'Arenberg Wines, located 40 km south of Adelaide.
Established in 1912, d'Arenberg is a 450-hectare family-owned winery that combines time-honored European traditions with Aussie ingenuity.
Kanzaki describes the Laughing Magpie 2006 as "very good. I didn't expect much from a wine under a screw cap . . . it's spicy and overflowing with energetic life . . . it's both exotic and made for normal people at the same time."
Chester Osborn, chief winemaker and great-grandson of founder Joseph Osborn, agrees wholeheartedly with Kanzaki's description.
While Japan still prefers old world, European wines sealed with cork, the vast majority of wines in Australia are now sealed with screw caps.
Osborn's father, D'Arry, managing director of d'Arenberg Wines, strongly advocates their use.
"Screw caps are a much better closure for our types of wine because they keep the freshness and the wines mature beautifully," the gentle elder Osborn said.
Chester Osborn said he knew the 2006 vintage of Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier was going to be special because of ideal conditions that year.
The experienced winemaker said a wet winter, spring and further rain in summer encouraged the grass to flourish between the vines.
This grass acts as competition for the vines and leads to a better balance of nutrients and more refined color and flavor.
With an average yield of 3.8 tons per hectare, Osburn said d'Arenberg Wines rivals the finest Grand Cru of Burgundy and Bordeaux in terms of low-yield, high-quality vines.
Chester, 47, and his father, 82, admit they'd never heard of manga before "Kami no Shizuku" but were proud to be featured in it.
Chester believes the comic book style enables more "personality" to be injected into a wine.
"It adds more fun, of course it's not just a technical review, it's not just a wine columnist's opinion, instead it's someone from the real world wanting to do it in a very humorous way," Osburn said at his McLaren Vale winery.
A good review in this manga series sends its 360,000 weekly readers into a frenzy and sparks a mad rush to snap up bottles of the featured wine.
Also published in South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and France, a mere mention in "Kami no Shizuku" can provide a substantial boost to a company's wine sales.
Even before the "Kami no Shizuku" installment hit the stands, all bottles of the Laughing Magpie 2006 Shiraz Viognier were sold out in Japan.
Kyobashi Wine Liquor Shop, an online wine seller, snapped up the last 120 bottles after it learned the wine was included in "Kami no Shizuku."
The online shop has a page dedicated to wines featured in the manga.
Wataru Takeno, who manages the Australian wine category for the online store, said the manga has definitely raised interest in Laughing Magpie 2006, which falls into the higher end price category.
"The 120 bottles sold in a month is a very good result for wine (in the) ¥3,000 price (range) and for Australian wine," Takeno said.
Richard Cohen, 59, d'Arenberg's Japanese importer, believes the manga is so popular in Japan because of the lack of Japanese-language wine reviews.
"There's so much wine from all over the world in Japan and there's not much press in Japanese, most of it is in English," Cohen said.
He said "Kami no Shizuku" has a unique way of informing people which wines are worth trying.
Now published in four languages, the manga continues to educate and entertain wine drinkers across the globe.
Its publisher, Kodansha, said it has been inundated with inquiries about an English-language version.
The company said it hopes to put one out in the near future.
By KEDE LAWSON
Kyodo News
McLaren Vale winery named as the producer of Australia's top export wine for 2009.
Sabella Vineyard, a small McLaren Vale winery, has been named as the producer of Australia's top export wine for 2009.
Sabella's 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon beat 16,716 other wines to win the George Mackey Memorial Trophy and be judged the best of all wines submitted in 2009 for quality assessment and export approval by AWBC expert assessors.
Winemaker Michael Petrucci has given credit for the win to advice from the late Greg Trott, Wirra Wirra founder and one of McLaren Vale's and Australia's most notable winemakers.
'[He] once told me that any fool can make wine but it's the amount of passion and heart and soul you pour into your winemaking and what you do when you're making the wine and how you do it is what gives the results,' Petrucci said today when accepting the George Mackey Trophy at the annual general meeting of the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation.
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Sabella Vineyards was founded in 1975 by Joe and Rosa Petrucci on 40 acres next to Wirra Wirra. Joe and Greg Trott became best friends.
The Petrucci's now own 110 adjoining acres and their son, Michael, has been making wine since 1999, producing up to 4,000 cases a year, 40% of which is exported to Asia.
Wirra Wirra won the George Mackey Trophy in 2003 with its 2001 RSW MacLaren Vale Shiraz.
Sabella's 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon beat 16,716 other wines to win the George Mackey Memorial Trophy and be judged the best of all wines submitted in 2009 for quality assessment and export approval by AWBC expert assessors.
Winemaker Michael Petrucci has given credit for the win to advice from the late Greg Trott, Wirra Wirra founder and one of McLaren Vale's and Australia's most notable winemakers.
'[He] once told me that any fool can make wine but it's the amount of passion and heart and soul you pour into your winemaking and what you do when you're making the wine and how you do it is what gives the results,' Petrucci said today when accepting the George Mackey Trophy at the annual general meeting of the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation.
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Sabella Vineyards was founded in 1975 by Joe and Rosa Petrucci on 40 acres next to Wirra Wirra. Joe and Greg Trott became best friends.
The Petrucci's now own 110 adjoining acres and their son, Michael, has been making wine since 1999, producing up to 4,000 cases a year, 40% of which is exported to Asia.
Wirra Wirra won the George Mackey Trophy in 2003 with its 2001 RSW MacLaren Vale Shiraz.
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