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Crittenden Wine Centre will be reopening from October 30

The Crittenden Wine Centre is delighted to be welcoming guests for tastings from Friday 30th October 2020. 

Join us in our new outdoor seated terrace area to experience our tastings alfresco style. We will be offering a selection of six wines that give a broad representation of the Crittenden portfolio. Tastings will be $10 per person. 

Although not essential we would recommend that you book prior to arrival. Please phone 5987 3800 or email winecentre@crittendenwines.com.au

Share in the bounty

Finally, we've had quite a harvest of broad beans thanks to the inter-row cropping program in our vineyard and we wanted to share the bounty. Be sure to ask about our sustainable winemaking practices and enjoy a take home bag of fresh, organic broad beans with any wine purchase made (while stocks last).

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. 

30/10/2020 at 9:59 AM Permalink

Food and Wine with Roberta

Friend of the Crittenden Family Roberta Muir has been sharing her favourite things to cook (and what to drink with the dishes) — and we wanted to share her recipes here from her popular Food Wine Travel website.

Roberta Muir is a food, wine and travel writer based in Sydney. She has managed Sydney Seafood School, Australia’s largest recreational cooking school, since 1997. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Gastronomy from the University of Adelaide and is a qualified sherry educator and cheese judge. Her passion for food, wine and foreign cultures has led her on adventures in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, Scandinavia and South East and Central Asia. Her food blog is well worth subscribing to and recently she mentioned a lovely recipe to pair with our Crittenden Estate Peninsula Rose. See the link to it here - a perfect spring dish! 

20/10/2020 at 11:10 AM Permalink

A guide to sustainability heroes

Jancis Robinson, the London based wine commentator, is without question the globe's most highly regarded practitioner in this field at the moment.

When she called for entries in her now traditional annual writing competition, this year on the subject of “sustainability” in the world of wine production, Ed Verrill, a two-time vintage worker with us here at Crittenden Estate, quickly put up his hand as an independent observer to write the story of our sustainability journey. Ed, an ex London based hospitality worker, introduces himself below as a segue into his story.

An independent panel of qualified judges was assembled to assist Jancis and her team to rate the entries and decide which companies are making major contributions in their endeavours. The organisers were bowled over by the number of entries from pretty well every wine producing country in the world, including four from Australia. Of the 85 entries in the competition 18 were singled out by the judges for ‘special mention’, and guess what………….we are one of those companies, thanks in no small measure to Ed’s light hearted but factual dissertation, (see his closing sentence).

No we didn’t win the competition but just to be included in the top entries 18 is reward enough. See here to read Ed's entry. 

02/10/2020 at 1:16 PM Permalink

What Rollo likes to drink!

If you feel like having a little sticky beak into Rollo’s world; what he likes to drink and places he likes to visit (mainly in non COVID times!), then check out this interview that has been published on the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival Website:
 
https://www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au/read-watch/latest-news/news/drinking-victoria-rollo-crittenden-821

01/10/2020 at 3:00 PM Permalink

Mistaken Identity

Savagnin has had a troubled past in Australia, but as Jane Faulkner discovers and discusses in this Halliday article, it's well and truly coming into its own. Jane interviews Rollo Crittenden and Matt Campbell and looks at how Savagnin (and in particular ours) has evolved into the wine that it is today - one that is turning heads all over Australia. Given that the Cri de Coeur Savagnin has been said to be “quite possibly the most exciting white wine in Australia” (Halliday Wine Companion 2021) - this article is definitely worth a read!  Click here.

10/09/2020 at 10:39 AM Permalink