Red Wine Wednesday is back!. We welcomed back Toni & Darren from their 6 week trip through Europe last night and were also joined by Kevin & Paula for a big night of wine.
Naturally most of the night revolved around catching up and hearing about T & D’s trip through Europe – sounds like they had a blast and also managed to sample plenty of quality wine and food throughout – but I’ll let them fill you in on those details.
We also discovered a gem of a wine last night – so good we actually talked about it!. Our first wine was an Aussie Blend from McHenry Hohnen Vinters. It went by the name of 3 Amigos! and contained a blend of Shiraz, Grenache and Mataro varietals.
It was pretty good - subtle but smooth, some nice flavours a bit of sweetness, not a lot on the nose but cetainly very drinkable. A little bit oaky and a nice finish.
We followed this up with a 2005 Grant Burge Shiraz – Filsell, Old Vine Shiraz. Wow!, fantastic, lots of character and layers, lots of nose, lots of depth, smooth as silk and just lots of fun!, we loved it – it gets added to the list of success stories from RWW – the Scarpentoni, the Climbers Ladder and now the Filsell!. It went down really quickly!. We followed it up with another Shiraz – no point in even mentioning it as it just didn’t even register following the Filsell. It was probably quite robust but following immediately on from the Filsell it just tasted weak.
So…another good find, more good company and good food and good conversation. RWW is back!
