Comments on: The Hunter Valley Wine Show https://www.mattwalls.co.uk/the-hunter-valley-wine-show/ Practical tips, tricks and info to help you get the most out of wine Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:24:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Matt https://www.mattwalls.co.uk/the-hunter-valley-wine-show/#comment-104356 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:24:39 +0000 http://160.153.133.187/~c5tetzcj4n3c/mattwalls.co.uk/?p=1450#comment-104356 In reply to David Crossley.

McWilliams are making some great wines. You’ll have to tell me more about that balloon landing some time – reminds me of a time I did a tandem skydive and was used as a crash mat by the guy I was strapped to! Oooof!!

]]> By: David Crossley https://www.mattwalls.co.uk/the-hunter-valley-wine-show/#comment-103672 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:38:35 +0000 http://160.153.133.187/~c5tetzcj4n3c/mattwalls.co.uk/?p=1450#comment-103672 Sweaty saddle, ah, that old chestnut! Perfect example of the outdated wine cliché that people hear or read and then trot out. Often wine writers are as bad as everyone else at doing this. I think I might have experienced the Hunter Sweat, but only on one visit back in the 80s, and it was more to do with a hairy balloon landing than a bottle of Shizza.

Good to read more about the region, the first Aussie I visited. Whilst most wine loving Poms will have heard of it, we seem to see fewer Hunter wines today in the UK than in the heady days of Rosemount’s assault on our shores. I’d love a return visit to the McWilliams homestead.

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