Having another week left with the van we decided to drive past Perth (Our final destination) and look at the bottom section of WA. We went to the Margaret River, which is like Wine mecca for WA. A very up market area with lots of wealth looking, maturer couples, our Cat woman wicked van blended in quite nicely.
Being in an area famous for it's wines we decided to take a little wine tour. We signed up and were picked up at 10am the very next morning. It was to be a day of wine, chocolate and cheese tasting, with a small in dependant brewery thrown in there for good measure. Now, for those of you that don't know, Clare doesn't drink but I happy volunteered to take up the slack. As I say, we were picked up at 10am and went to a few other places to pick up others. By 11am, I had my first taste of wine. Now in a taster session you only get around 20ml of wine, which may seem tight but as the day progressed I was quite pleased that this was the case. We spent around 45 mins at our first vineyard where we tested a sparkling white, two whites, two reds and a port. A hell of a start to the day! Clare was quite happily smelling and swirling the wines, and I was quite happy drinking them. What I didn't realise was that we had another 4 vineyards to go and all were testing two whites, two reds and a port. By vineyard three, things were starting to get a little blurry and I certainly wasn't the only one!
Once it was time to come home it was like a grown ups version of a 18-30 holiday............which is exactly the same!
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