Australian Wine Winter Trade Tasting

By Joyce, on February 13th, 2019
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Australian Wines The annual Australian Wine Winter Trade Tasting recently came to San Francisco. It took place at the pretty, The Pearl in the Dogpatch area. The event provided a wonderful opportunity for us to learn about and sample a wide range of Australian wines from most of the country’s dozens of wine regions—many of [Read more …]

Coonawarra Wine Region in Australia

By Joyce, on December 7th, 2016

Coonawarra is the most southerly of South Australia state’s wine regions. Its cool temperatures and unique “Terra Rosa” soils (mineral-rich red soil atop a layer of very hard limestone, called “Calcrete” through which roots cannot penetrate, down to a layer of porous limestone which provides drainage) produces a unique terroir where small, concentrated, stressed berries [Read more …]

Australia’s McLaren Vale Wine Region

By Joyce, on December 4th, 2016

Australia’s McLaren Vale wine region is known primarily for Shiraz and Cabernet wines. Since it has a Mediterranean climate, it also produces several Rhone, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese varietals, including Tempranillo, Grenache, Nebbiolo and Touriga Nacionale. Although our time was limited in the region, we were still able to visit five wineries—and they were winners. [Read more …]

Australia’s Adelaide Hills Wine Country

By Joyce, on December 3rd, 2016
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Adelaide Hills Wine Country Australia’s Adelaide Hills is a warmer wine region that produces primarily Shiraz (53 percent, to be exact). But the region also produces Cabernet, Pinot Noir and a number of whites, including Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Riesling. The large region, which has always been home to a particularly large German population, has [Read more …]

Barossa Valley Wine Region

By Joyce, on December 2nd, 2016
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South Australia Wine Regions We went to Adelaide Australia to see the city. But we also went there as a jumping off point for wine regions. After all, te Adelaide area is like Australia’s Northern California…home to many of the country’s best winegrowing regions and wineries. In exploring wine regions the world over, we can [Read more …]

Adelaide Australia Restaurants and Hotel

By Joyce, on December 1st, 2016

Adelaide Restaurants Adelaide Australia is more of a restaurant city than we found in Alice Springs. It has four primary restaurant districts, one on each side of the city, and supposedly, has more restaurants per capita than any other city in the country. We tried a few of them: Chianti, a very popular, [Read more …]

Adelaide Australia

By Joyce, on November 30th, 2016
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We took a plane from Alice Springs to Adelaide Australia for our next stop. Adelaide is a city of about 1.2 million people. Colonel William Light, a British Army engineer, recruited a number of settlers to his vision of a new, utopian city that he founded and designed just before he died. His vision, however, [Read more …]