Our latest Wine Group tasting sampled six wines from WA’s iconic south-west, namely the sea-kissed Margaret River region with its billion-year gravelly soil giving a Bordeaux hint to the wines.
We started with a Leeuwin Estate chardonnay followed by Forester, Vasse Felix and Voyager reds. The commentary was largely film clips with a quick travelogue about this beautiful and diverse promontory, followed by youtubes about each winery and seriously expert discussion by WA and overseas wine buffs. We also had an extempore report by Mel G on the club wine tour he led to the Rutherglen region.
The discussions were followed by instant arrival of copious Indonesian take-away, rapidly using up our supply of paper plates while we sampled favourite wines brought in by our dozen attendees.