![]() ![]() While one cannot draw generalisations based on a single fire, the stylistic patina of the wines, particularly the pinots, strongly suggests that a region layered with more green than most belies an omniscient beauty an intuitive murmur beneath the loams and ironstones, alluding to the ‘cool climate’ tag as effete at best, apocryphal at worst. Worst affected were grape growers, drawing their resources from a plenitude of sites. Of the 1200 acres, less than 300ha (700 acres) were destroyed and required replanting. According to theĭepartment of Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA), 781ha of vines were in the official fire scar, and of these approximately 500ha (1200 acres) were damaged by flame. ![]() The region was arguably the worst affected of any in the country as a fallen power line and belting heat conflated the infamous Cudlee Creek fire. Fires strafed the northern zone of the Adelaide Hills, centered on Lobethal, in the summer of 2019–2020. Instead, there is plenty to be excited about farther afield.Īs with many regions, the effects of climate change are irrefutable. While I made many discoveries, the greatest epiphany was that the regional hegemony of sauvignon blanc and pinot noir is not the firmament that we once believed it to be. I recently returned from the Adelaide Hills where I tasted close to 300 wines over two days an integral cog in my annual tasting regime. ![]()
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