Out Of The Bottle
With David Ellis
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Dry Ideas Slakes Foodies Thirsts
Fewer
than 250 people live in the little village of Watervale in South
Australia, but their vignerons and winemakers create Rieslings there
that are the envy of some of the biggest – and greatest – makers in the
world.
Jim Barry Wines is one of Watervale’s leading proponents
of the variety, and with an eye on world trends, Managing Director
Peter Barry and Winemakers Luke Steele and Derrick Quinto created a
2008 Riesling that’s a sensation for growing numbers of those who like
their Rieslings ‘dry’ – that is, the wine has a sugar-to-acid ratio of
less than 1 (to be precise, in this case 7.5g/L acidity to 6.8g/L
sugar.)
It makes it an ideal food wine with classic-Watervale
lemon, lime and floral flavours, hints of pawpaw and lanolin, and with
plenty of natural acidity for a beautiful clean, crisp finish; swirl it
around in the glass, take a good whiff and it explodes in the nose with
all the characters of a bowl of fresh-cut fruit salad.
At $16.95
this Jim Barry 2008 Watervale Riesling is an exceptional buy to put on
the table with hot or cold chicken dishes, seafoods and summery salads.
One For Lunch
You
would wonder why makers of a wine that blew away the judges when it was
created back in 1937, and has been an Aussie household favourite for
nearly 70 years since, would want to change the name.
But
Houghton’s famous White Burgundy that was the brainchild of the
legendary Jack Mann, is now labelled Houghton White Classic – to comply
with France’s dictate that wines made in other countries can no longer
be named after French geographical regions such as Champagne and
Burgundy.
The 2008 White Classic is the second release under the
new name and is 100% West Australian Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay,
Verdelho, Semillon, and a dash of Muscadelle, from the Swan Valley, Gin
Gin and Lower South West; pay just $14 and enjoy its citrus and
passionfruit flavours with cold seafoods.
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