Pyrenees Escapade Sunday 30th October 2011

With only three weeks until the Pyrenees Escapade, everyone needs to be quick and book their tickets!  It is a great day out for families with activities for the kids and wine and food tasting for parents.  For a small sample of what to expect check out the video.

Special Dozen Prize

To celebrate Redbank Winery's participation in the Federation Square Showcase tomorrow Wednesday 5th October and Thursday 6th October between 4.30 and 8.30pm - Mailing List Customers who identify themselves at the Sally's Paddock stand go into the draw to win a special dozen of Sally's Paddock and Sally's Hill wines from 1998 to 2009.

Bud Burst

The Pinot Noir are just starting budburst right on time. Nice warm weather now so the other varieties should follow soon.

New Tapas Menu at the The Flying Pig Deli

We have moved to a Tapas style menu at the Flying Pig Deli for a quicker and more convenient cellar door experience, so call in at the winery and enjoy with a glass of wine. You can select a few dishes for a group and share, we have also moved to a shared table inside, which is more fun.

Website: http://sallyspaddock.com.au/

Pinot Retro (Cont.)

The second flight: by this time Ian from Avoca Hotel and David Jones from Dalwhinnie had turned up and added to the end of the lineup.

Note the introduction of Hundred Tree Hill label in 1997. The standouts to date were Redbank Winery 1992 Pinot. The 1990 Huw Hamilton showed a slight taint on the night but was fabulous for the next two days. Both 1997's were excellent

The Private Bin wines were precursors to the Sally's Hill range, being Estate grown varietals.

The 2008 Mercurey on right was made by intern Andrea Cibin at his mother's Estate and all agreed it was good but way too young.

All the wines so far were getting better, opening up as we knocked off bangers from Casa Iberica, The British Butcher, Istra and many others.

Website: http://sallyspaddock.com.au/

Pinot Noir Retrospective Tasting

Having two Burgundian interns this vintage we decided to have a mid-vintage Pinot vertical and sausage taste off.

Started off with four Burgundy style Chardonnays to wet the whistle with Marie Girard's home wine J M Boillot Puligny-Montrachet and Maries delicious Parmesan Twists.

Some guest entries.

Then down to business with the first flight:

New Distributors

As Neill previously mentioned in an earlier post, as of March 1st we have new distributors.

In Victoria we are now represented by:

Prime Wines VIC

www.primewines.com.au

Sally’s Paddock and Sasha

Tel: (03) 9261 1800
Fax: (03) 9261 1899
Email: orders@wholesalewines.com.au

Level 1/ 262-276 Lorimer Street
Port Melbourne Victoria 3207

Metropolitan Melbourne
Warren Hammond | 0422 370 214 | whammond@wholesalewines.com.au
Jason Baker | 0411 426 326 | jason@primewines.com.au
Kathy Bennett | 0403 065 335 | kbennett@wholesalewines.com.au
Genevieve Cotter | 0401 144 327 | genevieve@primewines.com.au
Jonathan Stobbs | 0423 968 139 | jonathan@primewines.com.au

Winefields (Country Victoria)
Robert Di Pietrantonio | 0417 301 099 | winefields@bigpond.com.au

Marketing
Gemma Lyons | (03) 9261 1819 | gemma@wholesalewines.com.au

In NSW/ACT you can now contact:

Cogito Wines

Nick Butler
Unit 2 7-9 Orion Road
Lane Cove West NSW 2066
Mobile: 0458-672643
nick@cogitowines.com.au

So if you are in the trade and would like to stock our wines don't hesitate to contact them!