Out Of The Bottle
With David Ellis 2008 Teresa Clare RieslingOne
of the more eye-catching labels to come our way of late is Good
Catholic Girl from boutique maker Julie Barry in South Australia’s
Clare Valley.
The daughter of the late and legendary Jim Barry,
Julie says that being born into a Catholic wine family, it meant that
in vintage her fate was sealed, and only natural that she develop an
interest and love of wine from an early age.
Just two wines are
bottled under her Good Catholic Girl label: one is a Shiraz from her
own Limerick Vineyard that was planted in 1997 with cuttings from her
father’s famed Armagh Shiraz vines just across the paddock (and
certainly a great a head-start in the Shiraz-making stakes.)
The other is a Riesling from fruit she sources from two vineyards at Penwortham – the original settlement in the Clare.
We
found her 2008 Teresa Clare Riesling (named after her mother) really
something, with dominant cassis and lemon flavours, coupled with hints
of lime and fresh Granny Smith apples – all-in-all a refreshingly
succulent drop ideal with seafood such as crabmeat fritters and
salad, or roast pork.
Julie made just 108 dozen; if it sounds appealing its just $25 a bottle plus freight. ONE FOR LUNCHVictoria’s
cool-climate Blue Pyrenees’ “Varietal” range certainly live up to their
claim of value-for-money for premium quality wines at consumer-friendly
prices.
The 2006 Blue Pyrenees Varietal Shiraz is one in
particular to look out for if you like flavoursome reds: made from
low-yielding, big-on-flavour vines, this one’s got nice sweet blueberry
fruit flavours that give way to hints of chocolate and varietal spice;
pay $18 and serve with barbecued kangaroo steaks and whole foil-roasted
buttered potatoes.
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