So that’s two reasons I was particularly interested in Grosset Wines when we were planning our excursion to Clare in November 2008. Unfortunately we weren’t too far into the planning when I discovered a major problem.

The Grosset cellar door opens in early September each year and stays open until all the stock has been sold, a process that apparently takes five to six weeks. Given the time factors involved (early September plus six weeks ain’t gonna get you into November) I wasn’t very hopeful, but miracles have been known to occur, and we were staying in Auburn, which is also home to Grosset so...

We got there and the establishment was, predictably closed.

Grosset Sign

But there’s more than one way to skin a cat, as the saying goes. A visit to the winery website to add my address to the email list saw the Spring 2009 Newsletter land in the inbox last week. Predictably, I was on the phone ASAP to order some wine, and tomorrow morning, a week after the order was placed, Hughesy will be scanning the horizon for the little Australia Post delivery van, which will hopefully be dropping a six pack of the two 2009 Rieslings at the Little House of Concrete....