Try Chambourcin with a Rabbit Terrine with pistachio nuts, mustard fruits and wrapped with Jamon. There is a lovely Chambourcin in the Hunter Valley from Ballabourneen, I just had their 2008 and will post a review on my page soon.

Heres a bit from the Bellarine Peninsula. Vintage picking dates seem to be back to what we would see as the norm (if there is such a thing). The last couple of vintages have seen pretty much all varities ripe at the same time putting huge pressure on the winery. Tonnages are down again this year, it has been the driest vintage on records for us (thats 13 of them). We will pick about 40% of what we think is normal, we have had plenty of water to irrigate with but the lack of rainfall has just left the ground to dry to get the vines really going. We have picked some lovely Chardonnay but not a lot, the Pinot Noir looks good in the fermenters and it should produce a great wine. We are exicted about picking our Shiraz which hopefully will come of this week and it looks like being the real winner from this long dry spell.