Wine Tasting in the Barossa Valley

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Today my housemate Jules took me, Laura and one of our volleyball teammates Jo to the Barossa for a day of free wine tasting! It was great to be driven through the hills and we saw lots of vineyards. It really is a beautiful part of Adelaide. We went to many wineries throughout the day, my favourites were Rockford and Cockatoo Ridge. By lunch time I was in need of a good feed! We found a nice little restaurant in one of the towns and I had a juicy porterhouse steak with a pepper sauce. After lunch we went to more wineries including Peter Lehmann, Grant Burge and Jacobs Creek. I bought a bottle of Peter Lehmann 2002 Shiraz Muscadelle. It was the wine of the month and I'm saving it for a very special occassion!

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Photos

Drinking wine
The Grant Burge Winery- very nice shiraz

Cockatoos in the tree!
outside cockatoo ridge winery!

Comments

[Mum x]

Special occasion?
Well what better special occasion could there be than coming home! The joy it would give you to share a special bottle of Australia's finest vino with your mummy! I almost can't wait! Glad you both had a great wine tasting trip though the bottle of wine was nearly as big as Laura! I'm glad she didn't fall into it! Loved the cockatoos too - saw some yesterday at Colchester zoo though they weren't flying free of course! Lots of love darlings, Mum xxx

[Pink B]

Coming home!
Coming home is without a doubt the biggest special occassion I have coming up but unfortunately with the crappy baggage allowance I need as much room in my case as I can get! So will probably have to drink it as a farewell! Don't worry though we can recreate the Ozzie wine theme with a bottle of Jacobs Creek from Tescos! (Not quite the same I know!) Miss you lots mum x x x

[Chris]

Big Bottle of Wine
What a huge bottle of wine I reckon even your mum would struggle to finish that though I am sure she would give it a good go. Hope all is good looks like great fun. See you both soon, love Nicki and Chris