A bit of frantic diary-reshuffling resulted in a Thursday lunch together last week with Wynns winemaker Sarah Pidgeon who was in town as part of the Coonawarra roadshow. Six glasses were procured from the friendly (though at the time, perhaps a little confused) staff from local lunchtime haunt Saigon to zip through the range over [...]
The Coonawarra Vignerons and Grapegrowers are pleased to report that warm and dry ripening conditions resulted in the 2007 vintage producing good fruit quality, however the yields across all varieties were well below average. It was a difficult growing season with severe spring frosts (which affected 60 per cent of the region), coupled with unusually [...]
The power of Barossa shiraz takes on the class and structure of Coonawarran cabernet and drinkers are the winner. Opens up smelling essentially Coonawarran with plenty of mintiness but with time, the minty bouquet evolves into something quite seductive as aromas of spice, raisin and dark chocolate swirl in and out of each other. Deliciously [...]