Australia Day is today January 26 and you might think… so what! Yup, I would agree except, Australia has some great wine. Not to mention Trixie and I visited the Yara Valley near Melbourne a few years ago with some of our best friends that live there. Australians like to use some pretty funny names for their towns like Dooboobetic and Wandong (I’m not making this up!) so I guess Yara is a pretty simple name. Being from the United States, I’m sure our places also sound strange to them. New York, New Jersey, New Bern, New Bedford we sure use “New” a lot where is Old York? uh oh I am rambling.
Australia has some great wines at reasonable prices - and they even share them with us in the United States - that shows how nice they are! The first bottle we are going to try (well it’s not the first bottle we ever had, I think it is actually number 5,493 but who’s counting) Anyway, it is the first one for the forum. It is Yellow Tail Reserve - 2006 Shiraz. I remember my first glass of Yellow Tail years ago when they first had it at my local store. It was only a few dollars and…. We’ll they have come a very long way.
This was a really nice Shiraz. It tasted fruity with the berry flavor that you would expect from a Shiraz. It was also quite mellow or the technical term that I like to use is it did not have a bite. You know what we mean, wines that have a bite cause you to kick the floor and grab some salt and a lime. The cost was reasonable for a wine like this. Although it was on the higher end of our low budget goal, at around $12 a bottle it was worth every bit of it.
Cheers to our friends down under!
Angus and Trixie
