Oct 13 We had one day off in McLaren Vale, and our Aussie manager (and Vale resident) Alistair had a plan: take the band to some local wineries for wine tasting. Mclaren Vale is one of Australia's finest growing regions, and to boot. Al's wife Sally works at Samuel's Gorge winery , so we check that and some others. Amongst the excellent varieties and blends, particularly memorable for me were a Grenache, and a 40 yr old sparkling red.
Wine is so funny the way it encourages snobbery. For awhile in the band, we had started taping pilot episodes of what could have become a steady lampooning of wine snobbery, in a show dubbed "Drifters with Snifters". In my pipedreams of creating viral video, this one would become a series of shorts where Casey and I sip "single digit" wines (under $10/bottle), in outrageous settings, and rate them accordingly with spontaneous vulgar wine terminology. Mark would occasionally appear in the shot looking for beer. Hilarious stuff, at least at times to our toursoaked minds, and indeed that's where it will likely stay.
PS BTW we played another Canadian Showcase that evening with The Trews and Final Flash. The three of us bands have not a great deal in common, however our sounds compliment one another, and everybody quickly became friends with much respect for each other's music. More of these bands in an upcoming blog from Melbourne.
*editors note - I admit that at this point in the tourblog it seems that I've lost focus on the music
Mclaren Vale wineries we attended:
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