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Tasting Wendouree: A Vertical Through the Range

Tasting Wendouree: A Vertical Through the Range

$195.00
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Join us on a guided vertical through the full range of Wendouree of the Clare Valley. Without a doubt one of the most uncompromising and hardest-to-access estates in Australia. Sold only by mailing list, and hardly ever at retail.

These are high-acid, savoury, tannin-driven wines from vineyards planted in the 1890s, dry-grown and built to age for decades. You will taste in drinking order, opening with the leanest and most structured wines and building to the mature finish.

We will show nine wines across the estate's full spread:

Wine 1 - Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
Wine 2 - Malbec 2019
Wine 3 - Malbec 2018
Wine 4 - Malbec 2017 
Wine 5 - Shiraz 2023 
Wine 6 - Shiraz Mataro 2022
Wine 7 - Shiraz Malbec 2019 
Wine 8 - Cabernet Malbec 2020
Wine 9 - Shiraz Malbec 2015

Numbers are strictly limited by the bottles in the room.

When: Thursday 10th of September

Where: 
Melbourne Wine School
Inspire9 Level 1/41-43 Stewart Street
Richmond
3121

Cost: $195.00

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30 (Circa 1.5/2 hours)

*Indicative list only. Tasting Samples subject to availability and may change.

Indicative Wine List: (Subject To Change)*

Tasting Line-Up:*

2017 Cabernet Sauvignon
2019 Malbec
2018 Malbec
2017 Malbec
2023 Shiraz
2022 Shiraz Mataro
2019 Shiraz Malbec
2020 Cabernet Malbec
2015 Shiraz Malbec

Subject to change*

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About Our Tasting Wendouree: A Vertical Through the Range

There are few names in Australian wine as quietly legendary as Wendouree. From A.P. Birks in the Clare Valley, the estate has no cellar door, no website and no retail presence. The wines are sold only to a mailing list that's among the hardest to join in the country, and they sell out within weeks of release. To gather nine of them in one room, across the full range and spanning the 2015 to 2023 vintages, is something you almost never get the chance to do.
The vines were planted from the 1890s. Dry-grown, hand-picked and fermented wild in a stone winery barely changed in a century, these are the opposite of the sweet, fruit-forward style most people associate with warm-climate Australia. They are high in acid, deeply savoury, built on fine tannin, and made to age for decades.
Across this tasting you'll move through Shiraz, Cabernet, Malbec and the estate's signature blends, in considered drinking order, with full guidance at every step. We finish on a mature wine that reveals exactly where the younger bottles are headed.

Details, FAQ's & Information

Description:

What's Included?

Registration Includes: (Where Applicable)

  • Tutorials
  • Wine
  • Tasting Booklets
  • Information Booklets

Location:

Level 1 / 43 Stewart Street
Richmond
3121

Check out our 'where to find us' if you require more information!

Entry Requirements:

All attendees must be at least 18 years of age.
There are no other requirements for this tasting.

Cancellations:

Please note cancellations made 72 hours before the course begins will incur a charge of 50% of the course cost per person

Zero Tolerance:

Melbourne Wine School has a zero-tolerance policy for threatening behaviour or acts of aggression and violence, physical or verbal, towards our members of our staff. Any violation of the policy will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination or removal from any course without refund.

Meet Your Educator

Andy McIntyre DipWSET

Andy has over fifteen years' experience working in the wine industry. His passion for wine ignited when working for Corney & Barrow in London, after attending an in-house wine course. From there he moved to one of the longest standing wine companies on the high street - Oddbins - and completed WSET Levels 2 and 3.

After many years at Oddbins he found a home at a small fine wine merchant called Philglas & Swiggot. It was there he worked with fellow Australian & Master of Wine - Justin Knock MW, gaining the highly valued WSET Diploma.

Now back in Melbourne, Andy is currently a student on the Master of Wine program, and continues to work in the wine trade sharing his passion and love of wine with those keen to learn more.

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