Today we did a bit more exploring in McLaren Vale, incliuding some more wine tasting in a different section of the area. Obviously the focus of the wines is on Shiraz here. There's a lot going on with the other Rhone varieties and some of the Bordeaux varieties as well, so we've also seen a good amount of Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, and Viognier amongst others. Honestly though, it seems like people like to make a little of everything out here with their wines. At one of the wineries we went to today, d'Arenberg, we tasted 29 different wines! We really got to see how much variety there is in the production of the wines in this area, and it also helped lead me to bed for a post-lunch nap.
I'm starting work tomorrow, so I just wanted to make a quick post with some pictures to give you an idea of what things are like out here.
Here's a picture of our pizza oven in our backyard. We're still figuring out how to make the dough, so if anyone has any recipes they'd like to share, it would be much appreciated.
This is a shot of McLaren Vale as we were leaving a winery called Tapestry. That's my roommate Ben in the green shirt.
Here's another shot as we were leaving d'Arenberg:
And this is another of my roommates, Chris, doing some whole cluster sampling at d'Arenberg:
This is quite interesting, especially the oven. How do I operate that sort of oven? How does it taste?, the pizza I mean.
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