One of the obvious side effects of your parents being in the wine industry is that you always live in a wine region! We have lived in Marlborough since 1995 but all we three girls were born in different regions. Before Blenheim we lived in Gisborne where Arabella was born in 1990, Libby was born in Huntly in 1986 when Simon was working at a winery in Te Kauwhata and I was born in Adelaide in 1985. Dad did his wine making training in South Australia. So, yes, that means I am technically Australian by birth!
When we last visited South Australia as a family we spent time in both the Barossa and Clare Valley wine tasting. Unfortunately, at that time Libby, Bella and I couldn’t care less about tasting and stayed in the car listening to cds at half of the places! Adelaide is famous for its food and wine culture and although we didn’t take advantage of the wine at the time we did have some great food experiences. The most memorable was probably visiting the Jerusalem Sheshkabab House – an Adelaide icon that Mum & Dad frequented as young people! Lebanese food is very popular in our household – hummus and tabouleh were some of the very first things I learnt to make. Dad taught me his own variations on recipes that I think came originally from the Moosewood Cookbook. Just quietly, I make the best hummus ever (as long as you like heaps of lemon and garlic)!
Anyway, I would love to go back to Adelaide as an adult to really take advantage of the great wine and food. My partner’s parents were just over there last week and really enjoyed it. His mother spotted a great review for the Durvillea 2008 Sauvignon Blanc in the Gourmet Traveller Wine magazine and kindly brought the magazine back for me. The reviewer was Bob Campbell.
Thanks Bob! We are glad you enjoyed it! If you are keen to see if you agree with this review we still have a little ’08 Sav available. Just visit the Astrolabe site here: http://www.astrolabewines.co.nz/wines/durvillea.
Also, if you are interested in reading more reviews please check out our “Nice things people are saying about us” tab up at the top of the page.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Meg
Hello,
La Pipette aux quatre vins is a French blog dedicated to wines and to tasting, which exists since about five years.
One of its objectives is to evoke the meetings between amateurs and wine growers, as well as the cycles of the vineyard(vine) and the wine.
Every year, in September, some messages exchanged with certain European wine growers, allow to estimate the level of the new vintage wine(year).
In 2010, I hope I can evoke the qualities of the vintage wine(year) in the southern hemisphere, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand …
Further to this message, can you, in some words, in some sentences, give us a trend(tendency) as for what reserves us the last grape harvest?…
Thank you in advance!
Very cordially,
Philippe RAPITEAU
http://pipette.canalblog.com
Hi Philippe,
I have emailed you through a summary of our 2010 harvest for Astrolabe and Durvillea Wines, let me know if you have any additional questions.
Thanks,
Sophie