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Landmark wine tastings showcased wines that exemplify Australia’s ultimate wine offering.
Landmark Australia wine tastings were central to the Savour Australia 2013 program and showcased wines that exemplify Australia’s ultimate wine offering. Landmark Australia referred to Australia’s regionally distinct and fine wine story: wines, vineyards and producers with an individual expression distinctly different from any other. To make such wines, every aspect of production – from where it is grown, when and how it is harvested through to the philosophy of the winemaker – is taken into consideration to allow the character of the fruit, region and site to shine through.
Savour Australia 2013 will include Landmark wine tastings in the program on Monday and Tuesday.
Several of the Landmark Australia wine tastings were taken out of the traditional “classroom-style” tasting and held at Adelaide’s top locations. Delegates had the opportunity to taste up to 20 of Australia’s best wines as selected by our expert panel of leading Australian wine media and industry professionals.
The Landmark tasting session options included:
The Pursuit of Pinot at the Adelaide Convention Centre
Uniquely Australian at the Adelaide Convention Centre
A showcase of the evolution of unique Australian styles of wines from traditional varieties – Riesling, Semillon and Grenache. These traditional varieties have developed their own Australian personality as a consequence of regionally specific terroir. An exploration of these Australian styles with examples of both current and museum wines.
Explore the Australian wine producers who pioneered the biodynamic and minimal interventionist viticulture and winemaking, as well as the evolution into natural wine production. Guests compared and contrasted the next generation wines alongside the pioneers.
Guests captured the diversity and regional differences across Australia. This session excited and challenged the perceptions of Australian Shiraz, with benchmark styles that displayed the old and new wave.
The James Halliday Chardonnay Challenge was held for the first time in 2012 and the top 10 wines were showed at this tasting. Alongside these newer releases, was the 10 cellar-release Chardonnays which gave an insight into the ageing ability and quality of Australian Chardonnay.
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This tasting highlighted Australian regions renowned for world-class Cabernet Sauvignon based wines, as well as some surprise examples. The wines shown here were benchmarks of their region and displayed true varietal and regional characteristics.
