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Could the Spanish grape mencia be the Next Big Thing in red wine in Australia? McLaren Vale winemaker Alan Varney certainly thinks so.
âIâm really excited by the variety,â says Varney. âIt ticks a lot of boxes. I think itâs got a great future.â
For the past couple of years, Varney has made only a few dozen bottles of mencia each vintage, using grapes he buys from nearby Oliverâs Taranga vineyard, the first grower to plant the variety in Australia back in 2011. But heâs so certain mencia has great potential that he recently organised a get-together of half-a-dozen winemakers now producing a red wine from it in McLaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills.
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Wine tasting with a view at Shaw & Smith winery
Credit: Shaw & Smith winery
It was a sunny spring morning, with hints of mown grass and cherry blossom on the nose. Up on the summit of Mount Lofty, some 12 miles east of Adelaide in South Australia, I could almost hear the sap rising in the vineyards down below.
Before me, running north-south in a band of freshly greened-up, mist-snagged slopes and ridges, lay the Adelaide Hills, one of the New World’s most innovative wine-growing regions where elegant chardonnays and cooler-climate pinots are setting new standards in Australian wine. Before me, too, was a palate-tingling prospect – several days of tasting and eating through South Australia, the state which dominates the Australian wine industry.
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