Engine Room Blanc de Blancs Sparkling Wine
Casey started Travelling Corkscrew in 2010 and has been wine blogging ever since. She has completed her WSET level 2 and 3 and is currently based in Tasmania, Australia. When she's not drinking wine and blogging, she runs an SEO & Google Ads company and hangs out with Mr Spittoon, her two kids and two furbabies.
It’s the annual Swan Valley Wine Show Awards tonight in Perth! Since I can’t be there, the next best thing for me to do is to sip on some SV wine.
We visited the Velo Wines cellar door on our trip to Tassie in April. Velo are located in the Tamar Valley, just out of Launceston in northern Tasmania. We actually popped in twice, as we wanted to drop off our box of wine to send back to Gippsland, although this was going to cost more…
We finally were able to catch up with some family on the weekend in real life instead of just on FaceTime (thanks COVID 🙁 ). Therefore I knew we had to have some extra special to accompany our lunch. The wonderful folks at Taltarni Vineyards here in Victoria sent us this sample bottle (thank you!).
Yumo who doesn’t love wine and platter nights am I right. What’s your go-to platter wine? I think mines Chardonnay, well to be honest, Chardonnay is my all-the-time wine.
Do you prefer SBS or SSB? Or do you go both ways. This 2020 SBS is from Oakover Grounds in Perth’s Swan Valley wine region (thanks for the sample guys!). The grapes for this one are from Margaret River and they suggest enjoying it with shellfish, aromatic rice dishes or soft cheese. Yum.
What’s classed as ‘old vine’? Well in the case of this 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon from Taltarni, the vines were planted in the late 1960s. So at least 50 year old vines.