Floods of Wine

We stayed in Canberra after leaving Newcs at about 4pm Sunday but managed to get in to the Diplomat [hotel] and also into Portia's [Chinese Restaurant]. We left early Monday for Rutherglen but managed to fit in a quick wine tasting at Clonakilla winery, which was amazing. A small but thoroughly excellent winery, they had already sold out of their Shiraz Viogner which got 97 points in the '11 James Halliday book. But we still got to taste many wonderful wines including the fantastic Hilltops Shiraz (95 Hallidays) and the O'Riada Shriaz (96 Hallidays) needless to say we bought a few bottles with the generous bounty that our friends and family had given us for saying that we love each other in front of everybody. But the lovely thing was that Tim Kirk, chief winemaker (and CEO I think), gave us a complimentary bottle simply because it was our honeymoon! So I say go there if you can. We used that one for dinner that evening in Rutherglen which you can... see above. Meanwhile our home state of Queensland is flooding like we've been drinking... we're thinking of our friends there.