Grown in some of the highest vineyards in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, this cracking Riesling offers awesome lime fruit, partnered with that flint and slate minerality which characterises the best Aussie Riesling.
Posts Tagged ‘Howard Park’
Aug
01
The Vineyards of the New World – In Pictures
By Rob Pickard
Following on from last week’s post, The Vineyards of Europe – In Pictures, where I posted a few images we had dug up following a sort out of our photo library here in the Marketing department. Here is another selection of great photos, but this time from a few of our New World producers.
Accumulated over the years, these are just …
Feb
03
Howard Park Chardonnay 2007 (Great Southern, Australia)
Oh, Aussie Chardonnay! How we loved you in the 1980’s when you first burst into our Muscadet-filled lives bringing fruit, buttery barrels and echoes of sunshine where they had been enamel-stripping dryness and thoughts of damp camping holidays in France. Then in the early noughties, how we tired of your boastful, floozy charms, your loud obviousness and supermarket simplicity. It wasn’t you, it was us. We’d changed. Moved on.
Dec
09
Howard Park Leston Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 (Margaret River, Australia)
There are few greater pleasures in the world than Test Match Special. My idea of utter bliss is sitting in the shade on a summer day with Aggers & co on the radio, a cryptic crossword on my lap and a bottle of chilled Riesling within reach. Huddling under the covers on a freezing London night with the headphones in comes a close second. Especially when we are winning. By loads. In Australia…
Oct
14
Western Australia shines at Howard Park International Pinot Noir Tasting
by Gareth Groves
Top Western Australian winery, Howard Park have held an International Riesling Tasting for several years. It is a celebration of all things Riesling and puts their own lean, mean version up against some top examples from around the world. This year they decide to add a Pinot Noir event, with 86 tasters …
May
07
London Wine Fair Countdown
We’ve reached a crucial stage in the build up (why build up, but count down? Oh well…) to the UK’s largest wine event in the calendar, the London International Wine fair (LIWF), next week at Excel. The integrity of our pants is under threat from the sheer anticipation. Seriously! If we can negotiate this tricky stage then it will be plain sailing from then on won’t it…?
But why …