That box I ordered will, no doubt, provide the basis for a lengthier piece over on The Wine Pages along with Tasting Notes as the contents are sampled.
Those considerations will come into play with what turns up from Lerida and Lark Hill as well, but for the moment we're looking at the travel narrative rather than an oenological perspective.
We could, had we left Canberra much earlier, have deviated from Murrumbateman Road into Gundaroo, but given the fact that it was Monday, with no apparent source of lunch to provide an excuse and little apart from the village's status as the home of the long gone Prickle Farm to justify a diversion we kept going towards Lake George, while I gave serious thought to giving Lerida Estate the flick pass and heading straight to Lark Hill.
That would have been a mistake, since once we'd made our way into the Cellar Door without meeting with any of the three deadly species of poisonous snakes found nearby, there was a small but very impressive range to sample, a mailing list to be added to and an interesting view out across Lake George from the Lerida Estate Facilities on the western escarpment.
We could probably have taken our time there, but with the time now well after one, and lunch venues in Bungendore presumably shutting down as far as new orders were concerned at two, it was a case of straight back on the road in search of lunch once we'd paid for a Botrytised bottle from Lerida, with plans to make up a mixed dozen order once we were back in the north. More...
