Le nectar des dieux...

La Barossa Valley. Paysage magnifique qui me font penser tantôt à la France méditerranéenne, tantôt aux prairies de l'Ouest Canadien.
à peine arrivée de Sydney, me voilà en pleine dégustation de vins, du Riesling au Chardonnay, en passant par le Cabernet et le Shiraz. Que dire du dessert fantastique...

Wikipeadia raconte quelque chose d'intéressant sur l'histoire des vins en Australie: Although the early Australian wine industry faced many difficulties, it also achieved considerable success. "At the 1873 Vienna Exhibition the French judges, tasting blind, praised some wines from Victoria, but withdrew in protest when the provenance of the wine was revealed, on the grounds that wines of that quality must clearly be French." Nevertheless, Australian wines continued to win high honors in French competitions. A Victorian Syrah (also called Shiraz) competing in the 1878 Paris Exhibition was likened to Château Margaux and "its tasted completed its trinity of perfection." One Australian wine won a gold medal "first class" at the 1882 Bordeaux International Exhibition and another won a gold medal "against the world" at the 1889 Paris Internaional Exhibition. That was all before the destructive effects on the industry of the phylloxera epidemic.
In the decades following the devastation caused by phylloxera until the late 1970s, Australian wine production consisted largely, but not exclusively, of sweet and fortified wines. This was true of much New World wine until the historic Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 and subsequent wine competitions demonstrated that wines of the very highest quality could be produced in diverse regions of the world.