The question was, under the circumstances, which two?
Which is where the research factor comes in. Given the numerical constraints, I restricted my research to the places Mr Halliday had assigned five stars. That meant we were still looking at twenty-one wineries.
It was obvious other selection criteria were needed.
For a start, there was no way I wanted to pull into somewhere that was, even on Friday afternoon, likely to be packed, which ruled out some of the higher-profile establishments.
Many years ago I’d had the good fortune to come across a Shiraz from Rockford and had constantly been on the lookout for any of their wines ever since, with absolutely no success whatsoever.
Since, as far as I can make out, their distribution doesn’t extend into our part of the world I figured Rockford was one of the two to visit.
I’d also run across a number of references to Thorn-Clarke as one of the rising stars of the Australian wine industry. Since it was close to the night’s accommodation I thought I’d found the second one.
But that was before I started looking at websites.