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Latest News
October 2007
We have put together some
CHRISTMAS GIFT PACKS
(special
mail order form on "order" page) - FREE DELIVERY anywhere in AUSTRALIA
$40 - 1 bottle 2006 bottle fermented Piccadilly
Valley Sparkling Chardonnay in a timber gift box
$65 - 1 bottle 2006 Arneis & 1 bottle 2004
Nebbiolo in a timber gift box
$125 - 1 bottle each 2006 Arneis, 2006 Fiano,
2004 Nebbiolo, 2005 Negro Amaro plus 2 bottles (375ml) Verjuice
$150 - 1 bottle each 2006 Arneis, 2006 Pinot
Grigio, 2006 Fiano, 2006 Vermentino, 2004 Nebbiolo, 2005 Negro Amaro
June 2007
We will be releasing our bottle fermented sparkling
chardonnay in July 2007. Only 250 bottles were produced - $30 per
bottle - download the pdf order form (on order page) and send it to us by
email, fax or post or phone Joy (08 8390 3927) to place your order.
Stock won't last long.
January 2007
We still have a few dozen 2005 Arneis and 2005
Vermentino in stock - if you want some, be quick as it is going fast!
OUR WINES ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR TASTING AND SALES
AT ADELAIDE HILLS WINE CELLAR IN LOBETHAL ON SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND PUBLIC
HOLIDAYS 10am-5pm.
The address for Adelaide Hills Wine Cellar is
Building 35, 4 Adelaide-Lobethal Road, Lobethal SA 5241.
Map
references: UBD Adelaide: 124 Q1 - Gregory's Adelaide:
192 A1
Phone: 08 8389 6740 Mobile: 0418 817 052
November 2006
LATE
NEWS – URGENT ACTION NEEDED
We
have just found out that City Vineyard in Melbourne who purchased a large
quantity of wine from us is closing its doors on 1st December.
They
will be sending a few dozen of our award winning 2005 Arneis and
2005 Vermentino back to us sometime in the next 4-6 weeks.
If you
would like to buy either of these wines at $20 per bottle – that’s a
20% discount, please let us know immediately so we can put
your name on the list.
We
won’t know until the wine arrives back here exactly how many bottles we have
of each variety so if you give us an indication of how many bottles of each
wine you would like to buy, we will do our best to supply that amount. If
we don’t have enough to supply everyone their full order, we will ration it
out so everyone who wants it can get some.
October 2006
We have 4 white wines being bottled at the
end of October - Arneis, Fiano, Pinot Grigio and Vermentino. As usual
we have only very small quantities of these wines - they will sell out
quickly. Click on "Order" tab for Mail Order Form.
Also now available - 2004 Nebbiolo.
May 2006
Newsletter (pdf)
June 2005
The
excellent weather for this year’s growing season resulted in fully ripe
fruit harvested about two weeks earlier than normal. Our vines are now seven
years old and fully mature which helped the fruit flavours, sugars, acidity,
tannins and colours to be spot on .
The
first grapes picked for this year’s 2005 vintage were Chardonnay and
harvested on April Fool’s Day. We
don’t usually make wine from these but sell them to one of the big
producers where they are used for their top of the range wines. The quality
was very high and an indication of things to come!
The grapes from our Arneis and Nebbiolo were the best ever. The
Nebbiolo was used to make a red wine and rose as well as the base wine for a
pink sparkler which will be available in 12 to 18 months time.
We
are preparing to bottle the 2005 Arneis, 2005 Nebbiolo rosa and 2005
Vermentino and these will be for sale around the end of July. We will only
have limited amounts of these wines available so if you are a regular
purchaser or first time customer, don’t leave your order too late.
Our 2004 Nebbiolo rose is sold out and stocks of the 2004 Arneis are
low.
Just
to be different we are labelling our Nebbiolo rose as
rosa
from now on. Other commonly used terms are Rosato, Rosado, Novello-rosso,
pink wine and blush wine.
Wine
lovers are really interested in our Arneis . That’s not surprising as the wine speaks volumes for
itself, but here’s what Philip
White the wine critic for the Adelaide Advertiser Newspaper had to say in
April this year, “……this beautiful,
unctuous, hand- pruned, hand-picked, handmade lovely makes most Chardonnay
look plain dumb. Banana, peach
and jackfruit blend in its lush wholesome fleshiness-it’s as silky, clean
and syrupy as lychee, but finishes dry…..94 points”
Our Nebbiolo
2003 just gets better and better, in the
March 16th edition of the same Newspaper the reviewer wrote “…this
juicy, audacious number. Its fruit like aniseed rings and blackcurrant gums;
its palate sinuous and sensual; its tannin fine, perfectly drying and
persistant…92 points”
What’s
new ? Vermentino
and Negro-Amaro that’s what!
But more of that in
the next update as well as what’s
in store for our Pinot Noir?
March 2005
SUMMER WINE SPECIALS
Our vines are looking great at the moment with some nice fruit. We will be putting out our nets in the next few weeks to protect the grapes from the birds as the fruit starts to ripen. At the moment the vines are going through veraison which is when they change colour and become softer and sweeter as the acidity reduces.
Now we need to make some space in our winery for the new vintage. So we have decided to mark down our white wines (Arneis and Chardonnay) and our Pinot Noir by at least 50%. The details are on the order page when you click on "Summer Wine Specials", along with a special order form. The special discount price is only available until 31st March or while stocks last so be quick and place your order NOW to avoid disappointment.
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
OFFER
To help you celebrate
Christmas and New Year we are offering a mixed dozen at $250 (normal price
$280) and a mixed half dozen at $125 (normal price $140) plus FREE DELIVERY
anywhere in Australia on all orders received before 31st December 2004.
If you prefer to order a half dozen or
full dozen of one wine, we will give you 20% discount plus free delivery
anywhere in Australia on orders received before 31st December 2004.
A mixed dozen contains 2 bottles each of
2004
unwooded Chardonnay, Arneis & Nebbiolo Rose
2003
Nebbiolo & Pinot Noir
1 bottle each of
2001 Nebbiolo & Pinot Noir
The mixed half dozen contains 1 bottle of
each of the above wines (you will receive either 2001 Nebbiolo or 2001 Pinot
Noir)
November 2004
We have just received 2
Bronze Medals for our 2003 Nebbiolo – from the Australian Alternative
Varieties Wine Show and the Australian Small Winemakers Show.
There are still a few bottles left, so now is the time to place your order
– before they are all sold.
Our range of summer wines has just been released (see OUR WINES page for
details on the wines)
2004 unwooded Chardonnay at $15 per bottle
2004 Arneis at $25 per bottle
2004 Nebbiolo Rose at $25 per bottle (only 250 bottles available)
August 2004
Screw
caps
Customer
feedback tells us how satisfied people are with the performance and ease of use of our screw caps.
It’s just
so easy to open and reseal a bottle! You
don’t need a cork screw, no more disintegrated corks, no more broken corks pushed into the bottle, no more bits of
cork floating in your wine glass, no more broken glass on the bottle top.
The days of extracting a super tight cork with a cork screw from a bottle between your legs are over !
We have been
using them exclusively since our 2001 vintage in both our white Arneis
and red Nebbiolo and Pinot Noir wines. At
Parish Hill we’ve got your best interest at heart.
We want you to enjoy our wine in its peak condition.
We are divorced from the romance and emotional tradition of the cork.
Studies in
Australia, Europe and America continue to show there is no question of the superiority of screw caps over cork in
uniformly preserving wine freshness and avoiding the presence of cork taint.
Cork taint is
the bitter, musty, unpleasant taste of T.C.A .(tri-chloranisole) derived from the treatment of cork bark with
Chlorine during commercial cork production. T.C.A.
is leached from the cork in contact with wine in the bottle and presents as a musty bitter taste.
It is estimated that up to 10% of bottled wines may be corked regardless of whether the wine is cheap or very
expensive.
Cheers
Andrew
& Joy
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