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I do have a wine cellar. Honestly. I really do. It has very well made racks strong enough to hold hundreds of bottles of wine. But I only store enough wine for immediate drinking. Not wine for saving and treasuring for future generations of Silverstones (a daunting thought in itself). But wines for the here and now. What I fondly call instant gratification slurping. I'm not clever enough to know what to buy today that my palate will enjoy in, say, 20 years time. No, I'm a wine drinking simpleton. If it tastes good today, then, stap me vitals sir, I'll drink it today. Even wines which now fall into my "Benchmark Collection" are still affordable enough to be popped and poured while my heart is still pumping and there's the odd hair or two on my head. Who |
knows what tomorrow may bring - so live for today and quaff yourself into contentment. And the Aussies know a thing or two about making the kind of wine I'm talking about. In McLaren Vale, South Australia, Chateau Reynella owes it's pedigree to John Reynell, who, in the earliest years of the region's colonization, planted some of the first vines. He then became the first to export South Australian red wine. Ch. Reynella hasn't let prestige go to it's head, the winemakers don't sit around on their didgereedoos. They continue to surprise the world's winers. So here we have a Shiraz, selected from the |
winerys best vineyards, and checked thrice daily to decide the optimum time for pressing. Then they basket pressed the fruit, which assures the consumer, a wine with soft, pleasant, friendly-to-the-palate tannins. After the TLC the wine was matured for 18 months in American oak. This is: as good as it gets Shiraz. A very earthy, leathery tar flavored wine which may not sound appetizing, but is sumptuous, quintessential Shiraz. Drink and purr with delight. Cheers! |
REGION McLaren Vale, South Australia GRAPES 100% Shiraz TECHNICAL Fruit from selected vineyards fermented in 7 tonne open fermenters. Samples tasted 3 times a day. Then Basket pressed & Malolactic fermentation in oak barrels. 18 months American oak aging. ALCOHOL 13.9% PRICE $27.99 |
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