WORLD’S BEST DRINK MAGAZINE qantas inflight guide to wine 13th Edition Awarded Best Airline Wine Cellar in the World Your flight attendant can advise which wines are available on your flight. qantas First & business wines Enjoy the finest in food and wine. Access our premium wine collection, including exclusive vintages from Australia’s iconic winemakers. You could meet and dine with some of the world’s finest chefs, including Neil Perry, or attend Qantas epiQure events. Join Qantas epiQure today, the online food and wine community for Qantas Frequent Flyers. Join today Secure your 12 month membership to Qantas epiQure $ for $99 or 13,000 Qantas Points before June 2014 and receive 99 a gift of fine wine#. Visit qantasepiqure.com.au Free 3 points Exclusive delivery ˜ per $1* events+ within Australia on wine and events for members Membership of Qantas epiQure and its benefits are subject to the Qantas epiQure terms and conditions. An annual membership fee applies for Qantas epiQure and you must be a Qantas Frequent Flyer and over 18 years of age to join. Membership fee includes GST. You must have an Australian delivery address to purchase wine. We only deliver Australia wide. Points are earned and redeemed in accordance with and subject to the Qantas epiQure terms and conditions. A joining fee for the Qantas Frequent Flyer program applies. Membership of the Qantas Frequent Flyer program and the earning and redemption of points are subject to the Qantas Frequent Flyer terms and conditions. #Limit of one complimentary gift per member. Gift is not available for complimentary joins through other promotions. You must be over 18 years of age and have an Australian delivery address to join and receive complimentary gift. Qantas reserves the right to vary the gift at its discretion without notice. The gift is not transferable or exchangeable and cannot be taken as cash. Offer available until June 2014.*Qantas epiQure members earn 3 Qantas Points per dollar spent on wine and event ticket purchases made using a credit card through qantasepiqure.com.au (but note that points are not earned on purchases made by redeeming points). Allow up to 6 weeks for points to appear in your Qantas Frequent Flyer account. Points are earned on purchases in accordance with and subject to the Qantas epiQure terms and conditions. +As a Qantas epiQure member, you may purchase additional event tickets for guests. All guests must be 18 years of age or above. Tickets are subject to availability. Members are able to make a purchase either using a credit card or by redeeming points in accordance with the Qantas epiQure terms and conditions. ˜Available for delivery in Australia only, while stocks last. Liquor Act 2007: It is an offence to sell or supply to or to obtain liquor on behalf of a person under the age of 18 years. Licence Number: LIQP770010287. QGL 1043-1 275x110 Gormet Traveller HPH.indd 1 20/11/13 2:54 PM EDITOR’S LETTER Maintaining a cellar of the magnitude needed to provide for some 11,000 Qantas flights that wing their way across Australia and to more distant parts of the globe each month, is an extraordinary achievement. The sheer quantity of wine required is mind boggling in itself, while the necessity for the wines to be perfectly matched to chef, Neil Perry’s First and Business menus adds another challenge to the equation. Close to home, we’ve recently witness- ed wine lovers’ tastes turn, for example, to leaner, fresher chardonnays and more JUDY SARRIS Editor, subtle, savoury expressions of cool-climate Gourmet Traveller WINE. shiraz, while enthusiasm for pinot noir, wm1213cover OK noBarSpi nep1 - 1 2013- 11- 06T14: 24: 03+11: 00 VOTED WORLD’S BEST DRINK MAGAZINE Mediterranean varieties and biodynamic and Enjoy the finest organic wines continues to escalate. Having PLUS Summer feast the foresight to select wines that will satisfy Brilliant Bubbles and wines Local fizz at its best to match YOUR GUIDE in food and wine. TO CHAMPAGNE Where to visit varied vinous preferences, from a choice of & what to drink BAROSSA On the trail of top reds ROLL OUT THE more than 2000 Australian wineries, is no R IESLING seriously impressive Access our premium wine collection, 35 Australian drops Message in a bottle mean feat. Fortunately Qantas has three of Tips on choosing exactly the right wines for gifts CABERNET SAUVIGNON Margaret River’s finest Bring this cover to life and preview tasting notes for our top including exclusive vintages from prestige Champagnes. See page 4 for details. Australia’s most highly-regarded winemakers DISCOVER HOW WINE EXPERTS LIKE TO CELEBRATE Australia’s iconic winemakers. and wine show judges on their tasting panel who are up to the task. Meet them on page 4 where they You could meet and dine with explain what they’re doing in their own vineyards. some of the world’s finest chefs, As I’m sure you realise, it is not possible to carry all the including Neil Perry, or attend wines showcased in this guide on your flight, however Qantas epiQure events. the wine list has been carefully curated to complement the Join Qantas epiQure today, the menu offered during your journey. Crew members will be online food and wine community delighted to discuss choices with you. We hope you enjoy discovering some of Australia’s for Qantas Frequent Flyers. standout wines and urge you to keep your copy of the Qantas Inflight Guide to Wine. Join today Secure your 12 month QANTAS WINE PANEL 4 membership to Qantas epiQure INflight seRVice 6 $ TS for $99 or 13,000 Qantas Points Food & DRinKS 7 before June 2014 and receive gRAPE VaRieties 8 WinemaKing 11 # EN a gift of fine wine. AWARds 13 99 T Visit qantasepiqure.com.au HOT DESTINATIONS 14 N CHAMPAGNE 16 TASTING NOTES 17 Free 3 points Exclusive O WINE INDEX 48 delivery ˜ per $1* events+ C CONTACTS 50 within Australia on wine and events for members Editor Judy Sarris Creative Director Sabine Schmitz Copy Editor Kylie Imeson Tasting Notes Peter Bourne, Bob Campbell MW, Tyson Stelzer Features Mike Bennie, Membership of Qantas epiQure and its benefits are subject to the Qantas epiQure terms and conditions. Peter Bourne, David Brookes, Peter Forrestal, Sophie Otton, Tyson Stelzer An annual membership fee applies for Qantas epiQure and you must be a Qantas Frequent Flyer and over Editorial Assistant James Kilmartin Cover Photography Courtesy of Brokenwood 18 years of age to join. Membership fee includes GST. You must have an Australian delivery address to Production Controller Chris Clear purchase wine. We only deliver Australia wide. Points are earned and redeemed in accordance with and CEO Matthew Stanton subject to the Qantas epiQure terms and conditions. A joining fee for the Qantas Frequent Flyer program Publisher Specialist Division Brendon Hill applies. Membership of the Qantas Frequent Flyer program and the earning and redemption of points are Qantas Airways Ltd subject to the Qantas Frequent Flyer terms and conditions. #Limit of one complimentary gift per member. 203 Coward Street, Mascot, NSW 2020 Gift is not available for complimentary joins through other promotions. You must be over 18 years of age Qantas Wine and Beverage Manager Claudia Lill and have an Australian delivery address to join and receive complimentary gift. Qantas reserves the right Published by Qantas Airways Ltd, ABN 16 009 661 901 and by Bauer Media to vary the gift at its discretion without notice. The gift is not transferable or exchangeable and cannot be ABN 18 053 273 546 part of the Bauer Media Group, taken as cash. Offer available until June 2014.*Qantas epiQure members earn 3 Qantas Points per dollar 54-58 Park St, Sydney, NSW 2000. spent on wine and event ticket purchases made using a credit card through qantasepiqure.com.au (but ©2013 All rights reserved. Printed by Offset Alpine Printing, note that points are not earned on purchases made by redeeming points). Allow up to 6 weeks for points 42 Boorea St, Lidcombe, NSW, 2141. to appear in your Qantas Frequent Flyer account. Points are earned on purchases in accordance with and Articles express the opinions of authors and subject to the Qantas epiQure terms and conditions. +As a Qantas epiQure member, you may purchase not necessarily those of Qantas or Bauer Media. additional event tickets for guests. All guests must be 18 years of age or above. Tickets are subject to availability. Members are able to make a purchase either using a credit card or by redeeming points in VISIT GOURMET TRAVELLER WINE AT WWW.GOURMETTRAVELLERWINE.COM.AU accordance with the Qantas epiQure terms and conditions. ˜Available for delivery in Australia only, while stocks last. Liquor Act 2007: It is an offence to sell or supply to or to obtain liquor on behalf of a person under the age of 18 years. Licence Number: LIQP770010287. gourmet traveller wine 3 QGL 1043-1 275x110 Gormet Traveller HPH.indd 1 20/11/13 2:54 PM WINE PANEL Looking Back Three of Australia’s top winemakers sit on the Qantas Wine Panel. Here, Sophie Otton discovers how they started out and what they’re now doing in their wineries. KEEP IT NATURAL Vanya Cullen’s philosophy is to “allow the fruit to shine through.” VANYA CULLEN is from a family of winemakers and has worked at their Wilyabrup winery, in Western Australia’s Margaret River region, since 1983. In 1989, she became chief winemaker and, since then, has built Cullen up to be one of Australia’s most iconic labels, raising it to certified biodynamic and carbon neutral status along the way.