Australian Wines

Leconfield is a remarkable family wine business owned by Dr Richard Hamilton and his wife Jette. It encompasses two of South Australia’s leading wine labels, both attributable to the Hamilton family:
Leconfield Wines
Richard Hamilton Wines

With a strong wine industry heritage dating from 1837, the family has developed a distinguished international reputation for elegant fine wines from their Estate vineyards at Coonawarra and McLaren Vale

Leconfield wines are based on a simple philosophy — great wines are crafted from great vineyards.

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Welcome to this week’s edition of the http://www.hopsandgrapesonline.com video newsletter!

Today Max and Filipe try Chocolate Box Shiraz, a vibrant and delicious Australian wine. With notes of coffee, cocoa and, of course, chocolate, this wine will be a delicious compliment to your favorite sweets. To purchase this wine online, follow this link http://hopsandgrapesonline.com/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=3023 .

Once again we’d like to remind our subscribers about a special wine tasting event at Terranova Restaurant. On Thursday, October 15th 2009 at seven PM, Hops and Grapes and Terranova Restaurant are featuring the Top 10 wines for under $15.00. There will be three light courses of food as well as hors d’oeuvres. The event costs $50 and pre-registration is required to reserve your seat. To order tickets online for this event, please visit the Terranova Event Registration Page at http://terranovawineanddine.com/event_pay.php?eventid=7 .

Be sure to check out the newsletter that this video is a part of at http://www.hopsandgrapesonline.com/images/newsletter/NewsletterOctober082009.html . For more information on wine tastings and events at the Hops and Grapes store at 810 North Delsea Drive in Glassboro, NJ please visit http://hopsandgrapesonline.com/?_a=events .

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We Squeezedthe grapes after the first fermentation. Now we let it do anaerobic fermentation for 3 weeks.

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Wineaux Weekly – Desert Wines, Zev Rovine discusses the process used in making sweet desert wines from classic regions like Sauternes of France and German sweet wines, to some newer regions like California wine regions, Australian wine regions and other young regions harvesting grapes after allow a rot known as Botrytis to make sweet desert wines including some that are excellent candidates for cellaring and aging

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Don’t assume that if you’ve tasted Australian Chardonnay, that you have experienced the extraordinary diversity and quality of all that Australian white wine has to offer.

Australia’s white wines have a story to tell thats all their own, and it won’t surprise you to learn that the winemakers who create them have a unique approach that sets their wines apart from the rest of the world.

When you look at it in the glass, a white Australian wine can be anything from opulent golden yellow orange almost to palest lemon yellow. The colour depends on the region it comes from (how cool or warm it is) and on the grape from which it was made; for example, Riesling’s are paler than Chardonnay’s, and so on.

Colour can be a clue to the taste (the deeper it is, the richer the flavour) but a better indication comes from taking a big sniff. Swirl the glass round and sniff again. One thing you’ll be sure of from Australia is that you will be smelling the product of well grown and fully ripened grapes.

Delicious, concentrated ripe fruit, harvested in perfect conditions is easier to obtain in Australia than almost anywhere else in the world. Beyond this it is difficult to generalise, so different are the aromas, flavours and taste sensations that come from each of the grapes, blends and regions.

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