Out Of The Bottle
With David Ellis Margaret River's Amberley Wines Kiss & Tell 2010 Moscato & 2009 Koonunga Hill Seventy Six Shiraz Cabernet
Aussie wine drinkers are developing a passionate new love-affair with Italian-origin Moscato.
And
it could be for any number of reasons: our growing ethnic community
bringing with it their own personal wine-loves, Australians themselves
looking beyond the norm to wines best-suited to our growing
appreciation of international cuisines, or maybe growing numbers of
female wine-drinkers who enjoy softer and sweeter whites.
Whatever,
sales of Moscato have jumped 87% here in the past two years and are now
worth $49m a year to importers and local makers. One of the newest on
the shelves is Margaret River’s Amberley Wines Kiss & Tell 2010
Moscato that at 7% is a lighter alcohol wine that’s also light on the
palate with sweet tropical and melon fruit flavours, and has a slight
effervescence to it.
Pay just $14.99 and enjoy with light
appetisers, or if you are a sweet-tooth, share it well-chilled with
rich chocolate or creamy desserts, or cheesecake. One For Lunch
Picking
up seven trophies for just five wines in three competitions in one day
was a pretty good day at the office for Penfolds’ winemaking team just
before Christmas.
And while there were the usual top-shelf wines
amongst those trophy winners at the National Wine Show in Canberra, the
Adelaide Hills Wine Show and the Great Australian Red Challenge, we
were impressed with the 2009 Koonunga Hill Seventy Six Shiraz
Cabernet’s trophy for Best Wine Under $20.
So if you’re
conscious of the budget on a night out, pay just $19.99 and match this
one that’s full-bodied with loads of dark berry flavours with Moroccan
lamb pie or meaty Mediterranean dishes. It’s a perfect combination.
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