When you’ve been making wine since 1928 you get very good at it - and De Bortoli are exactly that, with a range that spans the gamut of Australian wines and regionality. Amongst their wines are the Willowglen range - good fruit driven wines that over deliver. This is definitely the case with their 2016 Shiraz Cabernet, made in the typical dry red Australian style - a lovely fruit driven wine full of red fruit, oak and cherry. Medium in body, but not flavour, with fine tannin binding the wine together. The perfect over delivering quaffer.
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When you’ve been making wine since 1928 you get very good at it, and De Bortoli wines are exactly that with a range that spans the gamut of Australian wines and regionality. Amongst the wines is the Willowglen range, what you get is good fruit driven wines that over deliver. This is definitely the case with their 2016 Shiraz Cabernet, made in the typically dry red Australian style you get a lovely fruit driven wine full of red fruit and oak and cherry. Medium in body but not flavour with fine tannin bounding the wine together. The perfect over delivering quaffer.
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Wines made from Syrah are often powerfully flavoured and full-bodied. The variety produces wines with a wide range of flavor notes, ... Read Full Article
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(Serves 4; ½ hour)
4 x free range chicken breasts
Sprigs of rosemary, thyme, sage
Clove of garlic
100g rocket
150g sundried tomatoes
400g cooked kipfler (or chat) potatoes
2 avocados
2 large red capsicums
50g pinenuts
30g shaved parmesan
1 lemon
Extra virgin olive oil
Method
1) Whilst heating oven to 200°C, marinate chicken and potatoes in crushed garlic and torn herbs, sprinkle of sea salt and cracked black pepper.
2) Roast capsicums in hot oven (200°C ) until skins are blackened. Cool down and remove skin and seeds. Blend in food processor with pinenuts, parmesan, half a squeezed lemon, and a splash of olive oil. Season to taste.
3) Remove chicken from marinade and lay on a foiled baking tray, roast off potatoes in hot oven for 15 minutes. Then add chicken for another 15 minutes or until cooked.
4) Toss potatoes in a bowl with sliced sundried tomatoes, avocado and roquette
A salad that for blokes that think salads are for sheilas. Pair it with your more subtle but robust reds.
Ingredients
2 tbs black peppercorns
Olive oil
4 x 140g eye fillets steaks
360g kipfler potatoes
Sea salt
3 tbs garlic cloves
2 bay leaves
2 sprigs rosemary
6 thyme sprigs
250ml vinaigrette
200g green beans, topped and tailed
1 baby gem lettuce, outer leaves removed
4 tbs baby watercress
100g crème fraiche
1 tbs horseradish relish
2 tsp Dijon mustard
Slow Cooked Tomatoes
20ml extra virgin olive oil
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 tsp fresh thyme leaves
1 tsp fresh oregano leaves
4 small gourmet tomatoes
Pinch sugar
Sea salt and freshly milled pepper
Method
Grind peppercorns in a pestle and mortar until finely and evenly crushed. Tip into a sieve and shake to remove finely ground pepper leaving only the coarsely ground mignonette. Brush steaks with oil and press on crushed peppercorns. Cover potatoes with
Shiraz (which is essentially Syrah) is a dark-skinned grape grown throughout the world and used primarily to produce powerful red wines.
Wines made from Syrah are often powerfully flavoured and full-bodied. The variety produces wines with a wide range of flavor notes, depending on the climate and soils where it is grown, as well as other viticultural practices chosen. Aroma characters can range from violets to berries (usually dark as opposed to red), chocolate, espresso and black pepper. No one aroma can be called "typical" though blackberry and pepper are often noticed. With time in the bottle these "primary" notes are moderated and then supplemented with earthy or savory "tertiary" notes such as leather and truffle.
"Secondary" flavor and aroma notes are those associated with several things, generally winemakers' practices (such as oak barrel and yeast regimes).
History
It is called Syrah in its country of origin, France, as well as in the rest of Europe,
Cabernet Sauvignon is unmistakably one of the world's most recognised red wine varieties. It is produced in most major wine growing regions across the world, from the banks of the Gironde in France to Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, to the valleys of California where it overtook the Zinfandel variety on it's rise to glory. Since the late 1800s Australia has definitely proven itself in the world of the humble 'Cab Sauv'. Speaking locally, I turn the page on my desk copy of Halliday's 'Wine Atlas of Australia & New Zealand', to read: 'Whichever yardstick one adopts, Coonawarra produces most of Australia's great Cabernet Sauvignon.'
Proud Parents
Cabernet Sauvignon was born in the 17th century in an accidental parenting mix-up and is the spawn of a Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc entanglement which occurred in south western France. (Which reminds of a joke where a Chihuahua and a Pug walked out a bar one day..) Immediately its popularity amongst winemakers increased as its
