KOONARA VINO REPORT

Happy New Year!
New Years Eve in Robe was a sell-out, With dinner for 55 upstairs at the Caledonian Hotel. Perfect night, great band, and made all the better with the announcement the day before of Justine Duff & Scott Fennell's engagement the day before.

Vignerons Cup 2007
700 people for a sit-down breakfast & lunch in the big day in the Coonawarra social calendar. Another 2500 punters were outside the tent coming to watch Bad Billy win the Cup, and see me lose me cold hard cash for another year. More photos HERE.

More photos of the Cup can be found http://penola.org/racing_vignerons2007.htm

Newlyweds: Sam & Cathy Johnson
A beautiful wedding saw these two lovebirds hooking up officially. With them being a lawyer and doctor respectively, their kids will need an unusually large cranium to accommodate all the smarts...

Wine Quote:
“Where there is not wine, there is no love.” - Euripides (480-406) Greek playwright (thanks Tom & Jo Edwards!)

Lead in the Pencil awards
Bun in the oven - Congratulations to D'Arrenberg winemaker Toby Porter and Variety Club organiser Monique Whicker (above) on the expecting the birth of a new bub.

Bun out of the oven - James & Caroline Moorhouse - Arrival of the 3rd rugrat, William Angus Moorhouse into the world. Mum & Bill Jnr doing well.

Dates to remember:
After Dark - more fun after dark during vintage in Coonawarra! Grab a team for the grape stomp, or watch Charlie Chaplin on the big screen here at Koonara, while listening to me DJ some smooth tunes....

FREE BOOZE Sign up your friends to go in the running to win a vertical mixed case of Ambriel's Gift... aged for 6 years, it includes the unreleased  2002, 2003 & 2004... Each person signed-up puts you into the draw again - Click HERE to enter...

JANUARY WINE DEAL NEW!!! Angel's Peak 2004 is now ready! 2003 only lasted 2 months,  and the 2004 is better, so get in quick. Angel's Guild members get first go at this great value wine. $14.95 Click HERE to order. Rosé 2006 - Cracker - only 3 grams of residual sugar, yet still has a sweet burnt toffee and raspberry finish - showing the quality of the grapes used! ORDER ANY 10 KOONARA WINES GET 2 BOTTLES OF ROSÉ FREE. Click HERE to order. (Free freight anywhere in Australia)

For the foodies: Braised red wine and rosemary lamb shanks Serves: 4 Preparation Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 2 hour s Ingredients 2 tbsp   Olive or Vegetable Oil 4   Lamb Shanks, frenched (approx 200g each shank) 8   Baby Brown Onions, peeled 4 sticks   Rosemary 4 cloves   Garlic 125 ml   Red Wine 375 ml   Beef Stock Method 1.   Preheat the oven to 150°C. Heat oil in a large, heavy based frying pan, sear the shanks until golden brown, then drain on absorbent paper. Transfer to a deep roasting dish. 2.   Add onions, rosemary and garlic to the frying pan and cook for 1 minute or until golden. Then add these ingredients along with the red wine and beef stock to the shanks. 3.   Cover with baking paper and foil and cook in the oven for 1 hour before turning the shanks over and cooking for a further hour. Serving Suggestion: Spoon on some red wine sauce and serve with mashed potato and steamed green vegetables (beans and sugar snaps).

Wine to go: Angel's Peak 2004 $14.95. The new vintage. Damn good. Won't last. 'nuff said. Click HERE to order. Scarborough Yellow Label Chardonnay - $21 - Bored of chardy? Only drink Sav Blanc? Try this: Perfectly balanced with tight lemon tones, it is a slap in the face to the ever popular flabby chardonnay of the 90's. This is the style which will bring chardy back into favour. THEIR WEB

"Here's to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A fine wine-- and another one."

Dru Reschke
Head Honcho
Koonara Coonawarra Wines
O: (+61) (0)8 87 373 222
M: (+61) (0)408 101177
F: (+61) (0)8 87 373 220
dru@koonara.com
www.koonara.com
Box 5 Coonawarra
South Australia 5263