{"id":2056,"date":"2023-03-02T23:16:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T23:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2023-03-02T23:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T23:17:02","slug":"cheese-wine-tasting-at-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/2023\/03\/02\/cheese-wine-tasting-at-the-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheese &#038; Wine Tasting at the Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a steamy Friday evening, 60 attendees enjoyed a sold-out Cheese &amp; Wine Tasting Event as part of the Kangaroo Valley Show program, hosted by Valley Cheesemakers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The evening was perfectly led by our Master of Ceremonies Simon Harrington, with lucky door prizes and trivia question prizes on offer for attendees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expert advice and personal knowledge of the cheeses was provided by Carole Willman, an Australian Cheese and Dairy expert. This was a fantastic effort for Carole, who had just completed six hours of open judging, and tasting, all 90 of the Cheese and Dairy Section products.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John and Linley Brumerskyj of Flavours Shoalhaven provided the six Australian cheeses: Meredith Dairy \u2018Australian Native Pepperberry\u2019; Flinders Estate \u2018Triple Cream Brie\u2019; Hunter Belle \u2018Red Gouda\u2019; Tilda Dairy \u2018Three Vintage Cheddar\u2019; Tilba Dairy \u2018Super Blue\u2019; and Binnorie Dairy \u2018Duetto\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our wine guru Rohan Watson, the South Coast and Southern Highlands representative for reputable wine distributors Samuel Smith &amp; Sons, provided details of the matched six wines in a very engaging and personable way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeff Dudgeon at Kangaroo Valley Fine Wines &amp; Craft Ales provided the six matched wines: Deviation Road \u2018Sauvignon Blanc 2022\u2019; Ata Rangi \u2018Crimson Pinot Noir 2020\u2019; West Cape Howe Wines \u2018Book Ends Cabernet Sauvignon 2033\u2019; Collector Wines \u2018Marked Tree Red Shiraz 2019\u2019; Catena \u2018Bodega Catena Zapata Malbec 2019\u2019; and Heggies Vineyard \u2018Botrytis Riesling 2021\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With special thanks to our sponsors \u2018The Sheddies\u2019, aka Gentlemen Who Dine, and to Keith Learn who made our mice centrepieces, which doubled as our table names.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And thank you to all who attended and enjoyed a wonderful evening with us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kathy and Rosie<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a steamy Friday evening, 60 attendees enjoyed a sold-out Cheese &amp; Wine Tasting Event as part of the Kangaroo Valley Show program, hosted by Valley Cheesemakers.\u00a0 The evening was perfectly led by our Master of Ceremonies Simon Harrington, with lucky door prizes and trivia question prizes on offer for attendees.\u00a0 Expert advice and personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-food","category-the-kv-show"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Kangaroo Valley Voice","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice","push-errors":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}