A Spot of Passion, Anyone?

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary and I like each other very much. We really do. The deft task of opening the said book, looking up a word and closing it again should be so simple, yet... every time I try and accomplish that task, my eyes wander, become a little glazed almost and I embrace the volume and run my eyes lovingly over the surrounding words and pages, unable to stop myself from learning more, fuelled by my Passion for words. Now then, I have your full attention, I just knew the opening gambit would make you all read on! With Valentines Day quickly approaching, I thought I would base my little prose around that very word - Passion.

This is a feeling we like very much at Montinore and trot out, with justification, on a fairly regular basis. We like to think of ourselves as a fairly passionate bunch of people, whether our place of work be in the vineyard, winery or in the marketing arena. Having strong emotion, being interested in and enjoying what we do, has brought bigger rewards to us than just "doing the job."

In the winery, giving tender loving care to our wines and fine attention to detail can make all the difference between an average and good, excellent to outstanding wine. The Passion we show is a year round process, and we continually try and improve our skills and knowledge in order to make the product better. 

This year, myself, Ben and Kevin are keeping the passion going by having a monthly focus topic, whereby we take a wine related topic and spend some time individually researching it and then discussing our findings together, devoting time to more comparative tastings, to review how our wines fare amongst our competitors, and making a commitment to seminars and educational opportunities, all with the focus of driving our enthusiasm and ambition for making better wines at Montinore Estate.

So which of our wines may add a little spice to your relationship? Following on from a tasting of all our current releases last week, I can say that our 2009 Reserve Riesling and 2010 Borealis are showing beautifully at the moment and will be a sure fire winner over a candlelit Valentines Day dinner! And for those of you who think your relationship is already sweet, how about a drop of our delicious 2010 Riesling Sweet Reserve or find some fun after drinking our 2008 Frolic?

Whatever your desire is this Valentines Day, be sure to include some of our tasty treats and pour some of our Passion into yours!