After attending an all-day wine and food event at Seppelt in Victoria's Great Western I can tick that off my list.
The winery sits above a three-kilometre labyrinth of tunnels, and the finale of the event was a three-course dinner matched with a selection of wines and served up in one of the tunnels. If that doesn't sound like enough atmosphere, the tunnel ceilings are covered in a black fungus (transported from France back in the day) that resembles a gothic fairy floss.
The food was nothing to write home about - with the entree of Asian-flavoured sticky pork belly the highlight. It was all overshadowed by wines that included some un-released and museum.
The pick of those were: 1988 Drumborg Riesling, 1998 St Peters Shiraz and the 2004 Show Sparkling Shiraz.
Before dinner, we worked up an appetite by:
- Disgorging bottles of wine - using gas stored in a bottle to pop out the yeast lees that has been concentrated in the neck by riddling. I know, I know: mumbo jumbo talk. But it all made sense under the tutelage of winemakers Jo Marsh and Kelly Healey.
- Trying to mix a range of different wines to match the one we were given to taste. (Aftermath of that experimentation pictured above.)
- Tasting wines at their 'base' and 'tirage' stages to compare to the finished product. The 96 Salinger tirage was so good I drank the whole taster.
And back to the start of the day, we slurped on some 2006 Salinger Sparkling and Original Sparkling and ate a tapas luncheon. Which was all over delicious. (See below.)
Makes me want to go to more wine events - especially if they're in weird places.
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