Winery Clair de LuneCoalition Creek Shiraz
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The Coalition Creek Shiraz of the Winery Clair de Lune is in the top 0 of wines of Gippsland.
Details and technical informations about Winery Clair de Lune's Coalition Creek Shiraz.
Discover the grape variety: Pascal
Pascal blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Provence). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. Pascal blanc can be found in many vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
Informations about the Winery Clair de Lune
The Winery Clair de Lune is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in the of Gippsland to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Gippsland
The wine region of Gippsland is located in the region of Victoria of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Bass Phillip or the Domaine William Downie produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Gippsland are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Riesling, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Gippsland often reveals types of flavors of cherry, earth or tropical fruit and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, floral or black fruit.
The wine region of Victoria
Victoria is a relatively small but important Australian wine state. Located in the Southeastern corner of the continent, with a generally cool, ocean-influenced Climate, Victorian wine is remarkably diverse, producing all sorts of wines and styles in different climates. In all, the state covers almost 250,000 square kilometres (over 90,000 square miles) of land (almost the same Size as the US state of Texas), well under a quarter the size of its western neighbour, South Australia, and less than a third the size of New South Wales to the North. As such, Victoria's size - and to some extent, the state's viticultural history - can defy generalization.
News related to this wine
Flooding in south-east Australia set to hit wine production
Flood concerns have continued to hit parts of Australia, with the country’s Bureau of Meteorology warning today (17 November) that ‘major flooding’ was ongoing in communities in New South Wales, as well as along a number of rivers in Victoria. In the wine world, there were were concerns that flooding of vineyards in Victoria last month is now being repeated at some New South Wales wineries after continued spring rain in the south-east of Australia. There was even flash flooding ...
Top Australian winery Giant Steps gets new head winemaker
Australia’s Giant Steps said that Melanie Chester joined the winery as head of winemaking and viticulture on 25 November. It marks a new chapter for one of the leading wineries in Yarra Valley, Victoria. Steve Flamsteed, who joined Giant Steps as chief winemaker in 2003, will step back from the cellar – although he is expected to continue working closely with the team. Working alongside winery founder Phil Sexton, Flamsteed has played a major role in developing Giant Steps’ reputation for excell ...
Hitting the right note
Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...
The word of the wine: Oenology
The science of the oenologist, which is essentially concerned with the elaboration and maturation of wines.
