TarraWarra Estate is delighted to have two wines selected in the first Landmark Australia Tutorial, commencing Monday 1st June. The Landmark Australia Tutorial is the wine industry’s most significant investment to date in telling Australia’s fine wine story to an international audience.  Aimed at celebrating Australian excellence not just in wine, but also in terms of food, hospitality and tourism, 12 of the world’s most influential wine media and educators will be hosted by Wine Australia in the Barossa Valley for five days.

The inaugural Landmark Australia Tutorial will comprise more than 200 of Australia’s finest wines, presented by the country’s leading winemakers and commentators, and accompanied by an original series of seminars devised uniquely for the event.  Anticipated highlights include an ‘Historic’ masterclass featuring sought-after wines such as the 1954 Seppelt Great Western Hermitage K72 Shiraz, the first vintage of Penfolds Grange (1955) and an extremely rare 1955 Wynns Coonawarra Estate ‘Michael’ Hermitage.  A Slow Food/Slow Wine evening also promises to be an inspiring experience, showcasing the best of the Barossa’s local produce partnered with Australia’s new wave of alternative varietals and sustainably-grown wines.

Both our TarraWarra Estate MDB Chardonnay 2006 and TarraWarra Estate MDB Pinot Noir 2006 were requested to form a unique line-up of the best Australian chardonnay and pinot noir. For a full list of wines tasted at the Landmark Australia Tutorial and details of the program refer to the Wine Australia website.

Following the Landmark Australia Tutorial, we hosted three of the participants at TarraWarra Estate. Frank Kammer (Germany), Lim Hwee Peng (Singapore) and Yukari Iwashiro (Japan) toured the winery and tasted through barrel samples and our current range with winemaker, Clare Halloran, before meeting other producers from the Yarra Valley. The trio were highly enthusiatic about Australian wines and their Australian experience - the Landmark Australia Tutorial seems to have hit the mark!

  

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