The thing about SA is that we like a good time.<\/p>\n
(The Festival State<\/em>, is what our number plates used to read, until someone thought that we were giving too much away.)<\/p>\n We like to party, we like to think, and we like to debate.<\/p>\n We also like wine.<\/p>\n Wakefield Press have released many wine titles that have gone on to become classics over the years.\u00a0Trott’s View<\/em> <\/a>is the<\/em> McLaren Vale book, and the book is as beautiful as the region<\/a>. John Gladstones’s Wine, Terroir and Climate Change<\/a><\/em>, on the other hand, is a wine industry bible, especially after it was inducted into the Gourmand Wine Books Hall of Fame in 2011. If you want to read James Halliday’s views on that one, just take a look at this pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n And now there’s Barossa Shiraz<\/a><\/em>, by Dr Thomas Girgensohn.<\/p>\n I could tell you about how this is a groundbreaking book. I could tell you about Girgensohn’s years of research, his meticulous knowledge of a complex region<\/a>. How this kind of project has never been done before.<\/p>\n But let’s be honest, Robyn Lewis’s review on VisitVineyards.com\u00a0says it better<\/a>.<\/p>\n And the book<\/a> says it best of all.<\/p>\n Makes for delightful reading over a glass of Barossa red. Of course.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The thing about SA is that we like a good time. (The Festival State, is what our number plates used to read, until someone thought that we were giving too much away.) We like to party, we like to think, … Continue reading