Pikes Wines / Virtual Tasting

Pikes Wines in the Clare Valley, South Australia, is one of our favourites.

We first visited them during our trip down that way many years ago.

We buy a lot of their Riesling, a few whites and some of their premium Riesling and reds every year.

They have a Winery Members Roadshow tasting of their new releases annually where they offer pre release purchase at special prices at nice venues in each of the capital cities.

Obviously, this year is very different. With all the various travel restrictions, border closures, and event capacity limitations, it has become evident that they will not be able to conduct the Members Roadshow in the conventional way. They are therefore embracing the ‘new way’ and will be conducting it in a virtual format this year.

They have created four separate sample packs and will host online tasting sessions of each pack, via Zoom, at various times in the 2nd and 4th week of October.

The four packs are whites, reds, mixed whites and reds and their premium reserve range which have been offered at more than reasonable prices.

We have booked for the whites and reserve tastings and the wines are on their way. Hopefully the over stretched postal service will get them here in time.

We hear that all sessions are nearly booked out.

Opening six bottles of wine at one time for just the two of us might appear to be a bit of a challenge but am sure we are up to the task. We have had many years training.

But seriously, they should keep well in the fridge for more than a few days until we eventually get to them.

This will be a first for us and it will be interesting to see how it goes.