The Burge family is no stranger to the art and science of wine making. The Burge family has been making wines in the Barossa wine region of Australia since 1855. That is very nearly 160 years of wine making experience.
And that long history of experience in the crafting and production of fine wines is very well represented by the award-winning Grant Burge 10 Year Old Tawny Australian Liqueur wine.
It has a perfect tawny tone to it, and the aroma is redolent of rich fruits.
The taste is exquisite and the combination of the blend of Grenache, Mataro and Shiraz grapes (all grown in the rich and highly fertile Barosa Valley, of course!) is a perfect mixture between these grape types. It is a sweet wine, yet not cloyingly so.
It's a perfect wine to be drunk by itself, around a crackling Christmas fire, or with the desert stage of Christmas dinner or with mince pies on one of the dark afternoons in the Christmas and New Year Season.
You can also try it to accompany your main courses at the Christmas dinner party, too. It is an amazing companion to all types of cheese, but especially Stilton.
Judges, from What Food What Wine?,
declared the Australian Grant Burge 10- Year-Old Tawny NV (£23.95) a
‘wow’ with Stilton.
They said: “Rich sweet fruit, figs
and plums and raisins with a nutty note and a marmalade hint.
It is the perfect foil to the intense saltiness of the cheese, the
rich lactose stretching across the palate and lifted by the sweet
fruit. Simply stunning.”
The judging panel, including Susie
Barrie and Peter Richards from BBC 1’s Saturday Kitchen and Ewan
Lacey from Channel 4’s Cookery School, spent two days blind tasting
wine from around the world to come up with the best matches for
smoked salmon, turkey, Christmas pudding and Stilton.
Order online at www.winesdirect.co.uk
It is imported into the UK by Hatch Mansfield of Ascot, Berkshire.
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