February 2019
Riesling Renaissance
Riesling is one of the world’s noble grapes with purity, precision (it does come from Germany, after all) and incredible longevity. Riesling can be dry or sweet, drunk young or old with equal pleasure. Riesling arrived in Australia 150 years ago and has settled into the Eden and Clare Valleys in South Australia with marvellous rieslings from the Great Southern of Western Australia, the Canberra District and Orange. We’ll explore these regions alongside benchmarks from Germany, Alsace and Austria.
Full Details and Bookings »March 2019
Introductory Wine Appreciation in Orange – Mondays 4 and 11 March
2 Evening Sessions Course – Session 1: Monday 4 March / Session 2: Monday 11 March Back-to-Basics over two fun and informative sessions. What is wine? How do we taste? How do we know a ‘good’ wine and detect wine faults? What are generic styles and varietal wines all about? Taste the classics along with the new and exciting fashion wines. Explore the influence of wine making on flavour and style. Learn why you like the wines you do…
Full Details and Bookings »April 2019
GT WINE Magazine Top Tasting – 2017 Hunter Shiraz
The theme is 2017 Hunter Valley Shiraz and a cracking line-up. It’s the first time the GTW tasting panel have looked at Hunter Valley shiraz as a single category – odd that’s it’s taken 20 years to do so. 2017 was a fabulous year – read warm, dry and no sub-tropical storms.
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