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THE ADELAIDE REVIEW HOT 100 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WINES – TOP TENThe long-awaited results of the 2011/12 Adelaide Review Hot 100 SA Wines are out and as hoped, showcase a broad range of wines from all of the state's top regions and some unexpected gems from lesser known wine producing areas too.
TO JUDGE OR NOT TO JUDGE…Wine competitions are ridiculous. So why am I looking forward to being a judge at the Hot 100? asks Max Allen.
THE BAROSSA’S RADICAL TRADITIONALISTThe 2009 La Maline, a Shiraz from the Barossa Valley’s Spinifex Wines, is popular not only with the critics – it was fifth-placed in The Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines– but with drinkers too: the winery sold out some time ago.
REVIVING TRADITION A SWEET THINGChateau Yaldara’s founder, Herman Thumm, had a famously sweet tooth that was manifest in the Lyndoch winery’s wide-ranging, eccentric and occasionally questionable wine list.
A SURPRISE PACKET FROM COONAWARRAThe domination by Clare and Eden Valley wines of the high quality Riesling field is so established that a top 10 placing in The Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines for a Coonawarra Riesling could easily generate doubts about the judges’ sobriety, or at least suspicions of a stuff-up in the scoring.
THE WINES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’Fragrant, ethereal, unpronounceable wines winning McLaren Vale trophies – what next? Asks Brian Miller.
APERA’S STAR RISES IN THE RIVERLANDWith Spanish cuisine surging in popularity, the sea-spray flavours of chilled apera are a perfect match with dishes such as grilled sardines, olives and salsa. Charles Gent reports on our winning wine for 2011/12.
JUDGING THE HOT 100: A WINE SHOW REVOLUTIONWine critic and author Max Allen recounts his Hot 100 experience.
VIVE LA DIFFéRENCE!The Adelaide Review Hot 100 South Australian Wines competition has always been a bit different and that is no accident.
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGHThis year has been one that many winemakers would prefer to forget, with untimely and torrential rains and cool conditions making the job of producing any wine, let alone award winning wine, almost impossible. But tough conditions sometimes allow unexpected players to shine and the 2011/12 Adelaide Review Hot 100 South Australian Wines is hoping to discover some of these.
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