The dizzy limit

It’s been a epic week and it’s only Thursday morning.

I went to my third event in three days last night and they’ve all been big affairs that have kept me up past my usual bedtime.

I may have to put a weekly event limit on myself.

It’s been heaps of fun, but exhausting when combined with working all day.

Poor first-world-problem poster girl me.

The latest event saw Taylors unveil its 2024 Family Flagship Release, a selection of the winery’s finest wines, which was celebrated at a lovely restaurant in McMahon’s Point called Charlotte.

This year’s Family Flagship Release features six vintages across four of Taylors top ranges, with wines spanning from the 2017 vintage to the most recent 2024 vintage.

I was lucky enough to have Taylors Chief Winemaker Adam Eggins (that’s him on the left in the main photo, with MD Mitchell Taylor on the right) in the room to take us through them.

Adam is like the New Year’s Eve fireworks in human form. Thoughts, opinions, knowledge and ideas explode from him in the most dazzling and entertaining way.

If you ever get the chance to hear him speak, grab it with both hands. Amazing bloke with a brain the size of a planet.

Adam started at Taylors the day Mitchell took over the business in 1999 and they’ve been quite the duo ever since.

The wines we tasted included The Pioneer Shiraz 2018 ($225) – named in honour of the pioneering spirit of Bill Taylor from the second generation of the business; The Visionary Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 ($225) –
named in honour of Taylors founder and visionary Bill Taylor Sr; and finally The Legacy 2017 ($1000 …. I didn’t realise it cost that much until afterwards, really should have finished the glass!), a wine crafted to embody the founding vision and the enduring family journey behind Taylors Wines.

I felt very, very fortunate to have the opportunity to try these remarkable wines while listening to Adam weave his verbal magic.

“Each vintage in our 2024 Family Flagship Release tells its own unique story and continues to push the boundaries for what our winery can achieve in crafting fine wine,” he said.

He also won my heart when he said that rose wine (not part of the collection) is “morphing and changing and becoming quite wonderful”.

Yes, yes it is. Although there have always been wonderful roses out there. I will never forget tasting my first Rose of Virginia by Charles Melton on a wine tasting trip to the Barossa with my ex in our twenties. Superb. As is Turkey Flat Rose.

Oh, and I must not forget the pink wine I discovered with DD on a trip to the Margaret River, from Sandalford.

But back to Taylors. Apparently their rose is receiving judges’ scores in the high 90s, so it’s next on my list to try.

The food was incredible – smoked trout cannoli, spanner crab tartlet, steak tartare, lamb cutlets with potato rosti and superb cheeses for dessert with a giant macaron to take home at the end.

I didn’t have a plus one at the Taylors dinner, however I made my usual posse of new friends and caught up with old.

It was a lovely night, but I am glad today is my version of a day or rest. There are no events for me to attend this evening, I just have a busy day in the office followed by a trip to the dentist.

Thanks for bearing with me through it all.

Song of the day: Alanis Morrisette “Hand in my pocket”