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General Tips: Pokolbin - smack in the middle of wine country
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Favorite Thing: Here is a map of the Hunter Valley - 3hrs north of Sydney. You can do the wineries here on a day trip from Sydney or do what we did, stay for a week and savour the great wines, cheeses, food, gardens and countryside in the area. I have lots of lovely memories of the Hunter Valley to share with you and I hope my tips are helpful.
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General Tips: Vine pruning
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Favorite Thing: Here are the vines, just pruned. It's June, winter time and we learnt that the vines bud in September. Then the vines are individually looked after, making sure they trail over the wire so that the grapes hang down. Picking season is in February/March.
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General Tips: How white wine is matured
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Favorite Thing: We did a wine school at the Hunter Valley Resort where we stayed for the week.
Here is a pic of a big vat in which white wine is kept. Young whites are matured for about 6 weeks. Reds take much longer and they do them in oak casks.
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General Tips: How red wine is matured
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Favorite Thing: Here we are (that's the other couple and our wine teacher) learning about red wine that is stored in oak casks. Most of our oak casks come from France.
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General Tips: Wine tasting
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Favorite Thing: Wine tasting,.. ha...the best bit. We had our own private room and I learnt lots. The most amazing thing I learnt was how to bring the aroma out in wines. You know how you see the poshy wine conasours smelling the wine and swirling it around in the glass etc... Well I learnt that if you take a red and put a bit in the glass then smell it. Well that's ok... (big deal you say!!) Then swirl it around in the glass for a bit and smell it again. And guess what? The aroma is so much more stronger! Well I was amazed!! Yep, give it a try! I think you'll be as pleasently surprised as I was. Here is the wine tasting room. (I think Jesse was more amazed at the lights than the wine...haha)
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General Tips: Wine school certificate
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General Tips: Hunter Valley countryside
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Favorite Thing: The Hunter Valley countryside is really pretty. Apart from the vines everywhere, there is pockets of natural Australian bush and lots of nice dams. Here is the view looking down from The Mill, a nice restaurant we went to across the road from our accommodation.
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LoriPori Tue Oct 7, 2008 18:20 UTC
Wow! Tons of wineries like in California's Napa Valley. Australia wine is popular here - Lindemans Shiraz - Chapel Hill Cabernet Sauvignon - Yellow Tail Shiraz. I like the idea of BYOW in some restaurants. | mvtouring Tue Jul 29, 2008 08:51 UTC
Lovely page, had some great Australian wines now in the UK. Keep up the good work ;-) | SLLiew Sun Apr 13, 2008 05:15 UTC
Excellent page of Pokolbin. Congrats on getting the certificate. Thoroughly enjoyed a virtual tour of all the wineries and I must confess, a little bit tipsy, virtually. Cheers, SL :) | aussiejen Sat Nov 19, 2005 06:51 UTC
I had a nice Hunter white the other night, but tonight I've got a bottle of NZ sauvignon blanc chilling : ) |
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