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It used to be that the characteristic of Hunter Reds was a “sweaty saddle” nose that would signal Hunter! Not any more, with great perseverance the Hunter wine industry has got rid of Brettanomyces (Brett) – the organism that was spoiling our wines. Although for years it wasn’t recognized, the flavour can be attractive to…
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About 25 years ago, not long after buying our block on Hermitage Road, I was invited to help write a book on Carotid Artery disease (my special interest) on the island of Cyprus by Professor Andrew Nicoladies of London- a Greek Cypriote. It was a successful collaboration and importantly for me an introduction to the…
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With the recent announcement of the reopening of Lindeman’s Ben Ean winery by the McGuigan and Peterson families I thought it might be timely to look again at Henry Lindeman and his family and their great contribution to the Hunter and Australian wines more generally. Restoring the Ben Ean property to its early roots is…
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Standing in the courtyard of Estate Tuscany at the opening of the Hermitage Road Cycle Way on 30th August 2017, I mentioned to George Souris, Chairman of the Hunter Valley Wine and Tourism Association, that we were overlooking the old Rothbury Estate owned by David Scott Mitchell (1836-1907) of Mitchell Library fame. Mitchell was Australia’s…
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“To know the vineyard is to know the wine” When Max Lake took his spade and bucket to dig up soil samples before settling on the block we know as Lakes Folly, he was digging up more than soil, he was turning the sod for a whole new generation of wine drinkers. In the early…
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It is not by any accident of fate that the Hunter Valley was established as a fine wine producer. From the early days wine making was modeled on the French example and Fine table wines were the object of our pioneers. The exchange of experiences and ideas was a key reason for establishing the Hunter…
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While this is stating the obvious it is becoming more important than ever to define our region as a fine wine producer in order to distinguish us from the flat land large acre industrial vineyards that produce so much of the “brand Australia” every day drinking wines. Following on from my last blog where I…
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How many times have you read wine writers comments on the Hunter Valley and its lack of suitability for wine grape growing. It’s as if one uninformed writer years ago said it was climatically unsuitable despite the empirical evidence and all the rest have repeated what is essentially “false news”. In making this claim they…
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With Bastille Day coming up it might be time to look again at that great gift from Burgundy – Chardonnay. This ubiquitous wine when rediscovered back in the 1970’s, spearheaded the conversion of many red wine drinkers to the lighter and brighter side of life. It is a wine that has changed considerably over the…
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The Legends lunch this June featured wines from Italy, and it was a far cry from what we may have been drinking some 15 – 20 years ago from Italy. When we planted Sangiovese in the Hunter some 22 years ago it was a grape variety that was hardly known in Australia. Yet many Australians…
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