Trees & flowers - NE Victoria wine regions

[stubbsy]

Just back from a brief visit to Rutherglen, Glenrowan and Millawa wine regions in North East Victoria. As well as visiting 13 wineries in 2 days (I'm a good boy so I spit rather than swallow ) I managed to take a picture or two

The samples below are from my first group of shots. To see the larger image, click the picture. More images are here and here.

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A great selection of pix........ how did you do it 2 days.......... must have been quick spitting........ can't do it myself.... spit that is....

good one

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[stubbsy]

A great selection of pix........ how did you do it 2 days.......... must have been quick spitting........ can't do it myself.... spit that is....

good one

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I've learnt that regardless of how good a wine tastes, if I spit I can still evaluate the wine's qualities, but my palate stays fresh for much longer and I don't get tired. The first day we went to 4 wineries in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. At one winery (Warabilla) we tasted 12 red wines in about an hour!

Even when tasting the Campbell's Merchant Prince muscat (my favourite) I forced myself to spit despite how luscious it was. At $95 for 375 mls, I guess I spat out a few dollars worth!

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You have to love the port, musket and toukay country......{did I spell that right?}......at the moment I am drinking a blue tongue larger....you fine lots of things in the Hunter Valley

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Note: I just love an aged Chardonnay or Semillon {my birthday is comming up}

[stubbsy]

You have to love the port, musket and toukay country......{did I spell that right?}......

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Note: I just love an aged Chardonnay or Semmillon {my birthday is comming up}

Muscat & Tokay - but you were close

So you're hankering after a nice Tyrrell's Vat 47 or a Vat 1 perhaps. Had a 1995 Vat 47 while in Rutherglen (we always take some nice stuff from our cellars with us) as well as a 1993 Vat 1 - both were exceptional

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you can go off some people you know........you are such a tease .......in answer to your question YES and YES......... do you know Tyrrells well ?, besides the wine

[Manta]

Just to briefly interrupt the wine notes...

I love the photos Peter. The roses and the laneway are my favourites.

Now ... back to the spitting competition

[stubbsy]

you can go off some people you know........you are such a tease .......in answer to your question YES and YES......... do you know Tyrrells well ?, besides the wine

Tyrrell's is my favourite winery in the Hunter, I've been going there since 1979 to the Private Bin room. I generally go there 2 or three times a year and have got to know Murray Flanagan quite well (who has been in charge of their private bins for a loooooong while). Their wines, both red & white, are fantastic examples of what the hunter can produce. Of course I'm a little biased. My late father also was a regular at Tyrrell's (although interestingly I introduced him to the place, not the other way around).

I currently have in my cellar at least one bottle (and up to 6) of each year of Vat 1 and Vat 47 from 1996 to 2003 and I've got enough Vat 9's for a vertical tasting from 1990-2003! Is that enough tease (FWIW my wine cellar holds around 1200 bottles and is groaning at the seams after my Rutherglen trip. Then there's the 700 odd bottles of dad's that my sister & I are emptying out when we pay mum a visit ).

I'm back to Tyrrell's at the end of this month when the 04 whites are released.

[stubbsy]

Just to briefly interrupt the wine notes...

I love the photos Peter. The roses and the laneway are my favourites.

Now ... back to the spitting competition

Sorry Simon. I've gone pretty off topic good job the FUDmin isn't around

Thanks for the comments - the roses are my favourites too. I'll be posting some (non flower) showts when I get some more PP done tomorrow.

[Matt. K]

Peter
As a young man the first time I ever got drunk in my life was at the Rutherglen wine festival. Boy was I a sick puppie! The next day I was a little wiser.

[stormygirl]

Great work, Stubbsy. I really like the apricot roses with the sunlight behind them, and the Drive way/road.

I'm sure you had a wonderful trip....if it was me, I swallow....can let red go to waste!

[mic]

Stubbsy, can I Invert ya Roses just kidding. nice pics.

The Grape vine thats left in colour, whats your way of doing this ?

Thanks,

Mic.
Or should I say Cheers

[stubbsy]

Stubbsy, can I Invert ya Roses just kidding. nice pics.

The Grape vine thats left in colour, whats your way of doing this ?

Thanks,

Mic.
Or should I say Cheers

Mic

Having seen your colour inverted and recent roses stuff that actually occured to me.

For the colour grape vine with B & W everywhere else. I used PS CS and created a hue/saturation layer mask, desaturated that layer (-100), then painted the colour back in using a black brush on the adjustment layer to let the colour image underneath come through.

ANd cheers to you too

[sirhc55]

The roses are superb - such colour and form

[stubbsy]

Thanks Chris. The pink/red one really appealed since it was so perfect and it was quite large (maybe 5" square). Had to stand well back to shoot it since I used the 70-200 VR - got a few strange looks

[sirhc55]

I know where you are coming from Peter - a 70-200 is a great way of getting in close