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Our Notional Capital: October 2009
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Monday, October 5, 2009. Curate’s egg menu @ Canberra wine dinner. The excuse for this stereotyping* is the Canberra district wine and regional food dinner, and while making outrageous assumptions about complete strangers is always fun, we’re really here for the. Chance to try the region’s best wines. Anne Caine, energetic Prez of the Canberra District Wine Association. Top drops of the night included old mates like the Brindabella Hills sauv blanc and the Collector shiraz, and other local heroes such as...
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Our Notional Capital: September 2009
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Monday, September 21, 2009. Okay, so this is another winery that really shouldn't be on the list, but. Our Man and I first came across Collector Wines at the Cafe in the House* annual goat BBQ. It went down very smoothly and we wanted to try it again just to make sure it wasn't the siren song of roast goat that lured us to the second glass. A quick phone call to winemaker Alex McKay confirmed Collector doesn't have a cellar door. Wallet for a taste of the reserve. Labels: Canberra wineries A2Z. Along wit...
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Our Notional Capital: Dionysus Winery
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Monday, November 16, 2009. It’s been some time since we visited Dionysus. So I’m going to have to rely on my. Less than perfect memory. The mere suggestion that we should revisit the cellar door (and the thought of having to pay for more wine) had Our Man idly speculating whether the national library would accept wallets as part of their delayed release document program. Which is pretty much. It was an execrable late winter’s afternoon when we trundled out to Patemans Lane. Lizzie was particularly proud ...
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Our Notional Capital: August 2009
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Friday, August 21, 2009. Capital Wines is a joint venture between Jennie and Mark Mooney of Grazing restaurant Gundaroo and Andrew and Marion McEwin’s Kyeema Wines, so they should know a thing or two about making food friendly wine. There’s no cellar door yet, but Jennie says they’ll be opening one on site with Grazing restaurant in early 2010. In the meantime the wines are available through their online cellar. And a variety of places throughout Canberra including Plonk. Clearly in touch with this town.
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Our Notional Capital: July 2009
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009. Strictly speaking Barton Estate shouldn’t be in the A2Z because it isn’t open to the public – I was thrown by a couple of web entries that suggested you could arrange tastings by appointment. Unfortunately, tastings aren’t offered but you can order the wines via the website. A word of warning, at the time of writing the wine list on the web is from 2005 but apparently the site is soon to be upgraded). Our first taste showed the fruit had faded somewhat but there was a hit of bla...
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Our Notional Capital: December 2009
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009. There are many words to describe Canberra district wines: ‘boutique’, ‘cool-climate’ and ‘intimate scale’ are popular in tourist brochures, while the phrase ‘that’s bloody big’ less so*. Thus my first impression on driving up to Doonkuna. Was a slightly industrial feel compared to other Canberra wineries. As usual there are two price lists – by the bottle and by the dozen. Doonkuna’s price per dozen is great value, and a good way to stock up on some tasty/ver...Leaving aside...
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Our Notional Capital: POTUS Guide to Canberra
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010. POTUS Guide to Canberra. POTUS Briefing Document #1029 Subsection (W). Local Guide to Canberra. As requested by Agent Leiter and Mr Ballweight from the Australian Taxation Office, I have provided a few notes about Canberra. although there seems to be some confusion about this (our man in Canberra is a pen-name, not an indication of actually being your. no Mr Ballweight, I didn’t know an Australian taxpayer could be on double secret probation. anyway. Let’s face it Mr Pres...
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Our Notional Capital: November 2009
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Monday, November 16, 2009. It’s been some time since we visited Dionysus. So I’m going to have to rely on my. Less than perfect memory. The mere suggestion that we should revisit the cellar door (and the thought of having to pay for more wine) had Our Man idly speculating whether the national library would accept wallets as part of their delayed release document program. Which is pretty much. It was an execrable late winter’s afternoon when we trundled out to Patemans Lane. Lizzie was particularly proud ...
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Our Notional Capital: On the list but definitely no cellar door
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010. On the list but definitely no cellar door. If you're browsing some of the cellar door lists for Canberra, you might come across England’s Creek and Four Winds Vineyard. Both grow grapes and Four Winds does produce wine under its Alinga label, but neither are open to the public. England’s Creek grows contract grapes for the local wine market so chances are you’ve already gargled some of their produce. Four Winds has deal with the Arc Cinema. And you can also follow them on twitter.
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Our Notional Capital: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010. On the list but definitely no cellar door. If you're browsing some of the cellar door lists for Canberra, you might come across England’s Creek and Four Winds Vineyard. Both grow grapes and Four Winds does produce wine under its Alinga label, but neither are open to the public. England’s Creek grows contract grapes for the local wine market so chances are you’ve already gargled some of their produce. Four Winds has deal with the Arc Cinema. And you can also follow them on twitter.
