An overwhelmed and temporarily burnt out palate probably accounts for my relatively cool reaction to the wines we tasted at the day’s final stop, Reilly’s in Mintaro and, here again, I’m inclined to skip over the finer details after I’ve indicated that, yes, everything was very impressive indeed and that there were some great examples of dry-grown wines on offer.
From Mintaro we headed around the countryside for a non-tasting tour of the countryside, pausing for a stroll around Watervale before heading back to Auburn for a rest before what was expected to be a light dinner. Appearances are, however, deceptive, and when the packages we’d bought earlier had been placed in bowls, accompanied by a glass of the Knappstein ‘05 Three (an extremely good match, by the way), a $9.50 Thai beef salad from Wild Saffron proved to be a surprisingly filling meal.