A Bright Idea for a New Wine Label Or Has This Been Done Before?

I can't remember or has there been negative talk about critter wines recently? Anyway I was racing down the driveway trying to get the eldest to school on time when a mob of kangaroos burst out of the Road Block Tahbilk clone Shiraz right in front of us and scarpered away across the road to the McDonald's Shiraz next door. You actually have to look quite carefully to spot the hopping critter.

Could very easily have been roo in a plum sauce on the menu tonight/ large repair bill on my car. We sometimes see the odd stray roo loose in the Hill Shiraz (which is further up towards the house than these shots) but to see the 5 or 6 that we saw today is rare.

I have also added a shot of the Bosworth Road Block Shiraz - see above - (planted 1985) showing the soursobs beginning to stir. In a month's time there will be a veritable carpet of these eye-achingly day-glo yellow flowers. The soursob is the 'pretty yellow flower' - or a massive weed, depending on if you are a gardener or not, which features on our Battle of Bosworth labels. Their super aggressive growing activities help us contain other weeds in our organic vineyards.

Nice Reviews for Battle of Bosworth Wines

As modest as I like to think we are (Joch more so than I) it is always nice to receive some words of praise. So I was particularly pleased to lay my sweaty little mitts on a copy of Campbell Mattinson and Gary Walsh's Big Red Wine Book 2010/ 2011 (Thanks Rebecca Coombs from Wirra for collecting it, I’ll be round shortly with a cheque).

Battle of Bosworth Wines are very well represented in the book, which is nice. The 2007 White Boar (our homage to Amarone) is ‘impressive stuff’ and gets 93 points, the 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon gets 93 points also, and GW and CM generously comment that we have ‘nailed this release’ and the 2008 Shiraz Viognier weighs in at 92 points as a ‘velvet glove kind of wine ......with lovely fragrance.’

How clever you are Bozzie, even if you have spent the last 2 weeks drinking Campari and sodas, surfing, boogie boarding and generally doing bugger all on some tropical island.