Monday, June 20, 2011

Time flies when you're doing tax

Yeah, right.

Since that amazing European journey (which I'm sure I didn't finish writing about), I've been buried in paperwork mostly. I can see the end now, just another couple of days.

But for now a heads up: I'm on the road in Australia again.

I've just had a week in the trade in Perth, including two public tastings that were very well received. Working with Terra Wines, we scored a number of new listings, including the Espiers Cotes du Rhone 2010 going on by the glass at Rockpool Bar & Grill Perth. We had a great meal there too, so if you haven't been get down there. Just go easy on the food - the servings are huge!

Coming up, here's the schedule for the next few weeks:

July 5, Sydney: Trade tasting. Email for details
July 6, Sydney: Public tasting. 20 wines for $50, specials on the night. At Wine Vault in Artarmon. Email for details. There'll be a booking link on the www.eurocentricwine.com.au website in the next day or so.

July 8: Driving to Melbourne.
July 11-13: Trade tastings in Melbourne. Will try to book a public dinner, perhaps on the Tuesday.
July 14: Tastings for trade in Beechworth and Albury and anywhere along the road to Canberra.
July 15: Trade tastings in Canberra.

July 18-20: Trade tastings in Brisbane/Gold Coast. Will organise a public dinner on the Tuesday.

There are no new shipments on the water at the moment but a fair avalanche planned for the next couple of months. German riesling fans should be warned that our allocations from 09 and 10 have been slashed so much I'll be able to fit the wine from 13 producers and two vintages in one container. Glad I added AJ Adam to the team!

There's a bunch of other great wines I can't wait to land, including more grower champagnes, bargains from the Rhone, more Beaujolais, Chablis, our first Sancerre and Alsace wines, southwest sweeties, Spanish, Italians ...

And with the end of the financial year looming, it looks like time for another clearance sale. We are moving to a new stock control system in two weeks and I don't want to enter product codes for wines down to the last couple of dozen. Watch your email inbox. If you haven't subscribed, do so now (free and easy) at www.eurocentricwine.com.au