An alternative wine focused week down under

This cartoon at my tasting station at The Australian Alternative Wine Variety Show made me laugh. With a little under 800 entries to be judged in two days, followed by trophy judging this morning, my table had rather more than six wines.  But I can assure you, there was plenty of class in the glass.

Trophy judging this morning, including selecting my very own trophy winner

Here are a few pics from the show to give you a picture of the goings on.  As you can see the cartoon was not my only distraction.  It’s quite meditative watching Australian Harness Racing.

After trophy judging we got our first glimpse of the bottles.  Let me tell you lots of surprises in there. Picpoul.  Oh yes.  Australia is doing it.

The results are out tomorrow.  I’ll let you know them next week and flag some personal favourites.