It’s my first time to McLaren Vale in South Australia and Greg’s second and we are loving it.
After travelling down from Mildura (after Lake Mungo) through citrus growing territory we are now sitting pretty in wine growing country. McLaren Vale is mainly known for it’s Shiraz, but I have been mixing it up with a bit of cabernet sauvingnon here and a bit of merlot there and shiraz combos everywhere. We haven’t had a bad drop yet. I feel a little bit like I am in Italy with all the vineyards and olive groves, worn stone walls and stone cottages. It is very old worldly but not hard to take for a week. Today we drove down the Fleurieu Pennisula to Cape Jervis, which is the southerly tip before you head over to Kangaroo Island. It was quite desolate and felt quite remote. The rolling green hills were beautiful with black faced sheep, cows and Alpaca’s along the way. We had fish and chips at Victor’s (claimed to be the second best F+C in S.A.) and yes the whiting (sustainable I believe Robyn) was fabulous.
I just returned from bike riding about 15 km through surrounding vineyards to work off some off that wine…..ready to go again tonight.