Do you want a taste of what’s new and exciting in Australian drinks? Here are half a dozen top drops from the country’s most talented emerging winemakers.
Most of the 42 finalists in this year’s Young Gun of Wine competition were still at school when the awards were first held back in 2007. I remember meeting some of them when I visited their parents’ vineyards back in the 1990s and early 2000s: kids tearing around the cellar door car park on their bikes, or helping mum and dad in the winery during vintage.
Please forgive the avuncular tone , but it was great to see those kids at this year’s awards ceremony, now all grown up and making wine of their own. Great, too, to once again see – and talk and taste with – no shortage of new enthusiastic, smart grape-treaders and cellar-rats jumping into the Australian wine industry and launching their own brands.has grown over the past 16 years and now hands out six trophies.
Talk about an impressive debut. After spending 15 years working with and for other people – including previous Young Guns such as Bill Downie in Gippsland, and her current gig at McLaren Vale vineyard Orbis – Kiwi winemaker Lauren Langfield decided last year to also set up her own label. She not only created a huge buzz in the trade with the first two wines she released but has now taken out this award for best newcomer.This wine gets better every time I taste it.
This award is given to the maker of a wine that challenges accepted “wisdom” – and the Methode Eucalypt definitely fits the bill. Coonawarra cab is sometimes criticised for tasting too “minty”, a character thought to come from the inclusion of grapes grown too close to gum trees.
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