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LATEST MEDIA RELEASES
JIM BARRY WINES: 14 MAY 2010
Tom’s graduation makes it a hat-trick for Jim Barry Wines
When Tom Barry, from the Clare Valley’s Jim Barry Wines, graduated with his oenology degree from The University of Adelaide’s Waite Campus last month, he followed firmly in the footsteps of his father Peter and his late grandfather Jim.
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YILGARNIA: APRIL 2010
Yilgarnia trio shows the quality of WA’s Denmark region
Yilgarnia was established in the Denmark Region, on the state’s south coast, in 1997 by Peter Buxton, an agricultural scientist, and his wife Peg. They have since been joined in the business by their three children, who each brings their own specialist skills to the operation — Sally (marketing), Anthony (viticulture) and Holly (sales).
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WICKS ESTATE: SEPTEMBER 2009
Wicks Estate weaves through nature’s minefield to produce an award-winning sauvignon blanc
Like any Australian rural producer, Tim Wicks — the operational half of Wicks Estate in the Adelaide Hills — finds the weather a constant and fickle companion, one that can quickly turn from close friend to bullying adversary. Includes release of Wicks Estate 2009 Sauvignon Blanc. FULL STORY
The following pictures are available as high-res JPEG images (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Wicks Estate 2009 Sauvignon Blanc
PENNA LANE: SEPTEMBER 2009
Release of Penna Lane 2009 Hand-Picked Riesling
It was a vintage that turned on one very significant climatic event — a fall of more than eight centimetres of rain over three days in mid-December last year. It was the last rain we were to see until March this year but it provided the moisture reserves that our vines needed for the vintage. FULL STORY
The following pictures are available as high-res JPEG images (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Penna Lane Riesling
MOUNT EYRE VINEYARDS: SEPTEMBER 2009
Release of latest Mount Eyre Three Ponds trio
It is the Three Ponds wines that, year in, year our, represent the best that we can produce from our estate-grown fruit. Wines covered are: Mount Eyre 2009 Three Ponds Semillon | Mount Eyre 2007 Three Ponds Shiraz | Mount Eyre 2006 Three Ponds Chardonnay. FULL STORY
The following pictures are available as high-res JPEG images (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Mount Eyre 2009 Three Ponds Semillon | Mount Eyre 2007 Three Ponds Shiraz | Mount Eyre 2006 Three Ponds Chardonnay | Aniello & Eve Iannuzzi
YABTREE: SEPTEMBER 2009
Yabtree Shiraz: Jim Wolfensohn’s blend of new and old worlds
For more than 30 years, Australian-born-and-raised Jim Wolfensohn has operated in the stratosphere of global finance, culminating in his Presidency of the World Bank from 1995–2005. With his historic Yabtree West grazing property near Gundagai, however, he is staying a bit more down to earth. Includes release of Yabtreet 2007 Shiraz. FULL STORY
The following pictures are available as high-res JPEG images (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Yabtree 2007 Shiraz bottle image | Yabtree 2007 Shiraz label
JIM BARRY WINES: JUNE 2009
Consumers the winners as global economic conditions squeeze wine producers
The Global Financial Crisis may have made things much more difficult for Australian wine producers, especially those with significant reliance on exports, but it has also provided Australian wine consumers with some genuine bargains. NOTE: This release covers Jim Barry 2007 Lodge Hill Shiraz. FULL STORY
The following winemaker's notes are available as PDF files (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Jim Barry 2007 Lodge Hill Shiraz
The following pictures are available as high-res JPEG images (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Jim Barry 2007 Lodge Hill Shiraz | Peter Barry
TIM ADAMS WINES: JUNE 2009
Tim Adams starts collecting on his punt with pinot gris
Tim Adams admits he took a bit of punt in 2001 when he and his wife Pam Goldsack and good friend Grant Crawley expanded their Sheoaks Vineyard by planting two hectares of pinot gris — and an even bigger one when they devoted 6.5 hectares to the variety in the new Ladera Vineyard which he and Pam established in 2004. NOTE: Story includes release of Tim Adams 2009 Pinot Gris and 2008 Semillon. FULL STORY
The following winemaker's notes are available as PDF files (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Tim Adams 2009 Pinot Gris | Tim Adams 2008 Semillon
The following pictures are available as high-res JPEG images (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Tim Adams | Tim Adams Pinot Gris | Tim Adams Semillon
WICKS ESTATE: JUNE 2009
Six premium new Adelaide Hills releases from Wicks Estate
"My family already had a long involvement with horticulture in the foothills at Highbury, just east-north-east of Adelaide, when my brother Tim and I purchased a 54-hectare property at Woodside, about 10 kilometres north of Hahndorf, in 1999 and began establishing a vineyard," said Simon Wicks. NOTE: This release includes: Wicks Estate 2005 Eminence Shiraz Cabernet | Wicks Estate 2007 Shiraz | Wicks Estate 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon | Wicks Estate 2008 Sauvignon Blanc | Wicks Estate 2008 Riesling | Wicks Estate 2008 Chardonnay. FULL STORY
The following winemaker's notes are available as PDF files (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Wicks Estate 2005 Eminence Shiraz Cabernet | Wicks Estate 2007 Shiraz | Wicks Estate 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon | Wicks Estate 2008 Sauvignon Blanc | Wicks Estate 2008 Riesling | Wicks Estate 2008 Chardonnay
The following pictures are available as high-res JPEG images (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): The Wicks Estate team (from left, Simon Wicks, Tim Knappstein, Leigh Ratzmer , Tim Wicks) | Wicks Estate 2005 Eminence Shiraz Cabernet | Wicks Estate 2007 Shiraz | Wicks Estate 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon | Wicks Estate 2008 Sauvignon Blanc | Wicks Estate 2008 Riesling | Wicks Estate 2008 Chardonnay
TIM ADAMS WINES: MAY 2009
Tim Adams nets two golds, five silvers at 2009 IWC
Tim Adams Wines has been awarded two gold medals and five silver medals at London’s 2009 International Wine Challenge, the world’s largest wine competition. FULL STORY
The following pictures are available as high-res JPEG images (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Tim Adams | Tim Adams Riesling | Tim Adams Semillon | Tim Adams Reserve Tempranillo | Tim Adams The Fergus | Tim Adams The Aberfeldy Shiraz | Tim Adams Cabernet
MOUNT EYRE VINEYARDS: MAY 2009
Mount Eyre brings a dash of Mediterranean winemaking passion to the Hunter Valley
Mount Eyre Vineyards brings to the Hunter Valley a passion for wine that goes back to two ancient Mediterranean cultures — to the towns of Alastena, in Greece’s Peleponnese, and Vallo della Luciana, in Italy’s Campania. Wines covered are: Mount Eyre 2008 Neptune | Mount Eyre 2008 Semillon | Mount Eyre 2006 Holman Shiraz. FULL STORY
The following pictures are available as high-res JPEG images (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Mount Eyre 2008 Neptune | Mount Eyre 2008 Semillon | Mount Eyre 2006 Holman Shiraz | Aniello & Eve Iannuzzi
BALLABOURNEEN WINES: MAY 2009
Talented new blood heralds a rebirth for Ballabourneen
Following an infusion of new blood in the form of talented young winemaker Daniel Binet, Alex Stuart’s boutique Hunter Valley operation, Ballabourneen, has been reborn as a partnership. FULL STORY
The following pictures are available as high-res JPEG images (just click on the link, then use your browser's SAVE AS function): Ballabourneen 2009 Sparkling Moscato | Ballabourneen 2009 Semillon | Daniel Binet tasting | Daniel Binet and his dog Matilda