French winemaker German press Tasmanian classic

摘要

ALAIN Rousseau makes another short black coffee and begins to enthuse about the 2014 vintage just completed.The day is another bright, sunshine-drenched, autumnal Tasmanian mid-morning ... cool, but not too cold.Rousseau is chief winemaker at Frogmore Creek, the vineyard and winery nestled on the gentle slopes of the Coal River Valley, overlooking Barilla Bay in Tasmania's south.His second, 45ha wine base lies in Campania, 15 minutes north of the signature winery.Like all winemakers he deals with the inevitable ups and downs of vintage - this year down on volume but he raves about the corresponding quality of grapes and wine Frogmore will deliver.