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Taking off to South Australia now…yet just dropped a little blog post on what it was like to Skydive with the Winemaker from Mount Majura Vineyard in Canberra!

http://wineramcolin.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/skydive-canberra-mount-majura-vineyard.html

Decided I would start writing a bit of a blog….I like to talk alot so might as well . Lets see how long I keep this one going haha. Enjoy!

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Episode 3 in Hunter Valley

Episode 5 -The WINERAM Experience – New Zealand is live here!

Episode 5 – The WINERAM Experience from WEST GRANT Productions on Vimeo.

Episode 5 takes up to the Hawkes Bay Wine Region for some top end Syrah at Trinity Hill Winery with legendary winemaker John Hancock. Adventure to be had there included a quick trip north to Jo’s home town of Gisborne to catch up with New Zealand Surfing Series Champion Bobby Hansen, see some waves and then go tackle and sheer some sheep!

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PINOT NOIR!  Some are way light, some got a bit more to them…a few can be beefy and old..so much personality, and so many options, i love pinot!  Heaps of people even say that making pinot is different than being a normal winemaker.  You can influence it that much!  Looking at this one it makes me think of days I spent looking over the deep and dark forests of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.  Experiencing the rich aromas of the forest around the park, then getting back to camp and spreading some sweet and spicy marmalade on toast for some brekky, grabbing the tripod and heading out to do some long exposure photography of the Madison River when its still smooth and soft looking before those sunrise hours!

WINERAM WINE REVEIWS

Hey guys.  So I had to think of a way to wet my palate with some wines a bit more, and continue to share my experiences with you.  Although in the spirit of being young, fresh and different I decided that I had to keep up tradition, and do something  NEW AND EXCITING in my approach to reviewing wines!  I was sitting with a few of the new cellar-hands last night in the Barossa Valley and there was 2 Americans, 2 Australians, 1 german, 1 Irish and 1 brazillian.  All amazing people with different experiences and different backgrounds with their own reasons for loving wine.  After a bit some of us got talking and wine reviews are just a bit TOO DIRECT, being a wino I barely read them and if I do I seriously can’t relate to many of them when there are just too many TECHNICAL DESCRIPTORS :/ .  You have to know quite a bit about wine to appreciate the aromas and tastes of some wine reviews you read with words you’ve never heard of used as descriptors!    Even though I do love finding specific tasting notes like that, I don’t want to sit there and make you read through them like everyone else does on the web.

One thing were great with at WINERAM.  EXPERIENCES.  (you know, like The WINERAM Experience? ).  So we are doing the WINERAM Wine Reviews from here on out!  Everywhere I go in the world to make a film or a documentary or a web series about wine, I will include reviews of some of the top wines around those regions across the world.  I will relate each tasting to an EXPERIENCE i have had in my many years of travel.  Experiences that might have had wine involved in them, or just an experience that reminds me of this specific wine that I”m drinking which might have something to do with either the characters or maybe experiences related to drinking this bottle.  In the end, this is what wine is about…just exactly how wine can help to add to or create experiences for you.  Wine should be MEMORABLE.   If you can’t relate to the wino’s reviews that talk about gooseberrys and cat piss in Sauvignon Blanc…well then, I hope you can at least relate to these experiences that I (like many other people) have had and some how, and hopefully in tasting these wines I review you can see what kind of experience it reminds you of exactly?  Similar?  Different? Let me know what you think!

Enjoy and I got many more to come!!

2012 K1 by Geoff Hardy Sauvignon Blanc from Adelaide Hills in South Australia.

Awesome wine.  Fresh. Lively. Fun.  Dry!  Reminds me of a time being elevated about some of the more grungy hidden backstreets of Melbourne on one of their rooftop bars where we are LIFTED up above some of those pungent smells of the VERY VERY side alleys to get to that FRESH beautiful air again in a place you wouldn’t expect! Wind would always be blowing there with new smells coming through that you wouldn’t expect to keep changing.  At the end of your day at the bar, your experience has just peaked to the best, yet just like an older elevator SLOWLY goes down  back to the streets, the taste and flavor only slowly dips away after a good long time spent in a place you love…

Big Thanks to K1 By Geoff Hardy!
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Episode 2 – The WINERAM Experience from WEST GRANT Productions on Vimeo.

The WINERAM Experience – Episode 2 is LIVE!  From Christchurch & the Canterbury-Waipara wine regions.  Check it out as we explore the wine region via Quad & Jet Boats and then see Pegasus Bay with the Donaldson family and learn all about the second stage in the winemaking process!

Episode 1- The WINERAM Experience from WEST GRANT Productions on Vimeo.

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