Yearly Archives: 2010

Flat out like a lizard drinking — Bluetongue fires up its kettles

28 July 2010UncategorizedChris Shanahan

Last week at Warnervale on the NSW central coast, Dermot O’Donnell and his crew commenced brewing at Bluetongue’s new $120 million facility. Tomorrow they’ll officially launch the first beer off the production line, Bluetongue Premium Lager, in a ceremony at the brewery.

Originally a Hunter-based boutique operation, Bluetongue now has the capacity to brew 50 million litres a year, expanding to 100 million litres a year over time. By my estimate that’s equivalent to eight and a half 330ml bottles for every person aged 15 years or over, heading towards 17 bottles

While current capacity represents perhaps one fortieth of Australian per capita beer consumption, the new facility gives the owners, Pacific Beverages (a joint venture between Coca Cola Amatil and SAB Miller), the platform to increase their estimated 10 per cent share of the fast-growing premium beer market and boost profits by brewing SAB Miller’s international brands, including Peroni and Grolsch, locally.

The new facility, combined with Coca Cola Amatil’s distribution, puts Pacific Beverages in a unique position to exploit fast-changing beer tastes. James Tait, corporate affairs director at rival Lion Nathan, recently said that the average Australian drinker now enjoys about seven beer brands on a regular basis – compared to three brands ten years ago.

Beer review — Spaten and Nogne

28 July 2010Beer reviewChris Shanahan

Spaten Munchen Original Munich Beer 500ml $4.50
Spaten has a bright, pale lemon colour and persistent pure white head. It’s highly aromatic and the palate’s full and malty with a distinct sweetness. Hops add a subtle flavour that works well with the malt, mollify the sweetness and keep the finish crisp and refreshing.

Nogne Imperial Brown Ale 500ml $14.90
Nogne, from Norway, delivers vigour, flavour, bitterness and alcohol by the bucket. It’s a deep brown colour and the aroma and palate simply scream with all these elements, leaving an aftertaste of brown sugar and a lingering, almost acrid bitterness. In the end, it’s a struggle to get past the first few sips.

Wine review — Picardy, Arete and Good Catholic Girl

25 July 2010Wine reviewChris Shanahan

Picardy Pemberton

Pinot Noir 2008 $35
Chardonnay 2008 $35

There’s a great purity and drinkability to Picardy wines, made in Pemberton, Western Australia, by Bill and Dan Pannell. The pinot’s pale coloured and deeply fragrant, revealing a big part of the pinot spectrum, from slightly stalky to ripe red berries; the palate’s fine and silky textured with a flavour reflecting the aroma. It’s easy to drink, but complex and ought to age well for some years. The chardonnay clearly bears the winemaker’s imprint (barrel fermentation and maturation on yeast lees), but the keynote is the soaring, crystal-clear varietal flavour and brisk, exciting palate. The winemaking elements simply add interest to this delicious fruit.

Arete Barossa Valley “The Chatterbox” Shiraz 2009 $20
This is a sensationally fragrant, vibrant shiraz, made by former Foster’s winemaker and barrel salesman, Richard Bate. The background steered him straight to the oak-maturation and Barossa grape growing sweet spots – and the winemaking shows a spit and polish that escapes many very small-scale makers. Bates made just 350 cases of “The Chatterbox” from two western Barossa vineyards – Andy Kalleske’s Cemetery Block at Koonunga and Shawn Kalleske’s Hill Block at Greenock. The 2009 reds seem, in general, more restrained than the blockbuster 2008s – in this instance providing plush, juicy fruit flavours and tender tannins. Available at www.aretewines.com.au

Good Catholic Girl Clare Valley

“Teresa” Riesling 2009 $25
“James Brazill” Shiraz 2007 $30

Winemaker Julie Barry (the “head girl”) sourced her riesling from Barry Marsson’s vineyard at Watervale, southern Clare, and the shiraz from in the Armagh Valley, near Clare township. The riesling, though only 11.8 per cent alcohol, sits at the richer end of the regional style spectrum – in its own pure, vigorous, citrus-varietal way. It’s bone and dry best enjoyed with food, rather than as an on-its-own aperitif, as you might with a more delicate riesling. The shiraz weighs in at 15 per cent alcohol but the very rich, ripe fruit, buckets of soft tannins and silky texture completely mask this.

Small makers flock to Winewise awards

21 July 2010WineChris Shanahan

As the National and Melbourne wine shows bend over backwards to attract small makers to their competitions, Canberra based Winewise herds them in by the flock. This year’s Winewise Small Vignerons awards, judged at the racecourse in early July, attracted over 1,500 entries from 394 wineries.

To qualify for the event wineries must crush, for their own label, 250 tonnes or less of grapes – equivalent to about 18,000 dozen bottles. By that standard 1,959 of Australia’s 2,420 vignerons qualify. However, if you knock out the small-scale hobbyists and others not interested in wine shows, the target market might be 1,000 producers. Attracting 40 per cent of these into one show seems an extraordinary achievement. It certainly gives a good snapshot of small regional producers and highlights some pretty exciting wines.

Like any show, though, there are gaps in the ranks as many of Australia’s best small regional producers – for example, Canberra’s Clonakilla and Clare Valley’s Jeffrey Grosset Wines – simply don’t enter wines in shows. They need neither the medals nor the judges’ feedback. But that still leaves plenty of top-notch producers to fill the ranks.

The results are a good form guide for drinkers, especially if we’re looking for up and coming producers that haven’t been on our radar in the past. Look, for example, at the trophy winning riesling, Lock and Key 2010. Never heard of it? Well, it’s from Jason and Alecia Brown’s Moppity Vineyard at Young, in the Hilltops Region.

It retails for around $12–$15 a bottle and Jason Brown says he has buckets of it. I’ve not tried the wine yet, but judges won’t have made a mistake. And they gave a silver medal to another Hilltops riesling, Chalkers Crossing 2009 – an excellent $18 wine, reviewed below on 18 July.

A highlight of this year’s results were the awards showered on Canberra producers across a range of varieties. Shiraz again showed its class as our signature variety. Len Sorbello, one of the judges and organisers of the event commented “the Canberra district shiraz class was the strongest in the whole of the awards”. Who can argue when you look at the honours list.

Canberra’s winemakers entered 21 shirazes in the event and hauled in 17 medals – three golds, four silvers and 10 bronzes.

Nick O’Leary won two of the three golds for his 2008 and 2009 vintages. The third gold went to Bryan Martin’s Ravensworth Shiraz Viognier 2009. The judges were so impressed by the two 2009 shirazes that both progressed to the trophy taste-off for best shiraz of the show.

Nick O’Leary Shiraz 2009 won the trophy. It’s a beautiful, supple and savoury medium bodied red sourced from the Fischer and Kyeema McKenzie vineyards, Murrumbateman. Like Martin’s equally delicious wine, it contains a small amount of the white viognier, co-fermented with the shiraz.

Canberra’s silver medal winning shirazes were: Lark Hill Shiraz Viognier 2009, Ravensworth Shiraz Viognier 2009, Shaw Vineyard Estate Premium Shiraz 2008 and Gundog Estate Shiraz 2009. Bronze medals went to Gundog Estate 2008, Lambert 2008, Lerida 2008, Brindabella Hills Reserve 2008, McKellar Ridge 2008, Mount Majura 2008, Brindabella Hills 2008, Shaw Vineyard Estate Winemakers Selection, Quarry Hill 2005 and Postcode 2582 2008.

Shiraz, overall, fared well. Moppity Hilltops Reserve 2009 won gold and progressed to the trophy taste off and its cellar mate, the $12–$15 Lock and Key Hilltops Shiraz 2009, also won gold.

The other gold medal shirazes covered most of Australia: Box Stallion Mornington Peninsula 2009, Paringa Estate Mornington Peninsula 2008, Sanguine Estate Heathcote 2007, Balgownie Black Label Bendigo 2008, Balgownie Estate Bendigo 2007, Montara Grampians 2008, Black Poppy Pyrenees 2008, Mantra Margaret River 2008, Were Estate Margaret River 2009, Duke’s Mount Barker 2007, Capercaille Ghillie Hunter Valley 2007, Ridgeview Generations Reserve Hunter Valley 2006, Meerea Park Hell Hole Hunter Valley 2007. The Barossa and McLaren Vale missed out altogether, perhaps reflecting the difficult 2008 vintage, or even the new orthodoxy among judges to favour cool-climate styles.

Canberra’s other gold medallists were Mount Majura Tempranillo Shiraz Graciano 2009 and Shaw Vineyard Estate Premium Cabernet Sauvignon 2008.

The other trophy winners offer a diverse snapshot of Australian regional winemaking:

Best chardonnay – Oakridge Lieu-dit Mackay Vineyard Yarra Valley 2009

Best other white – Ross Hill Orange Pinot Gris 2009

Best semillon – Coolangatta Estate Nowra 2006

Best sauvignon blanc – Abbey Creek Porongurup 2009

Best barrel-fermented sauvignon blanc – Oakridge Yarra Valley Fumé Limited Release 2009

Best sweet white – Robert Stein Mudgee Half Dry Riesling RS18

Best sparkling – Brandy Creek Gippsland Menage-a-Trois Pinot Noir Chardonnay Pinot Meunier

Best cabernet sauvignon – Moss Brothers Margaret River 2007

Best Pinot Noir – Paringa Estate “The Paringa” Mornington Peninsula 2008

Best red blend – Sandhurst Ridge Bendigo Fringe Shiraz Cabernet 2008

Best other red variety – Terra Felix Victoria Mourvedre 2009

Best fortified – Stanton and Killeen Rutherglen Grand Muscat

You can see the full results at www.winewise.net.au and the reviews of all the gold and silver medallists will appear in the August edition of the by-subscription “Winewise” magazine. I’ll also review some of the wines as they become available, starting with Nick O’Leary’s trophy winning shiraz reviewed below today.

Wine review — Nick O’Leary, Bleasdale, Dandelion, Chalkers Crossing, Peter Lehmann and Sam Miranda

21 July 2010People, Vineyard, Wine reviewChris Shanahan

Nick O’Leary Shiraz 2009 $28
Murrumbateman, New South Wales
Vintage 2009 looks to be a great year for Canberra shiraz. This graceful red won the trophy for best shiraz at the recent Winewise Small Vignerons Awards, with Ravensworth 2009, another gold medallist, not far behind. Nick O’Leary sources about 80 per cent of the grapes from Wayne and Jenny Fischer’s vineyard and the balance from Kyeema’s McKenzie Vineyard. The wine’s busting with ripe, berry fruit and spice flavours, gripped by taut, savoury tannins. Should evolve well, although this medium-bodied style drinks well even now.

Bleasdale Frank Potts Cabernet Malbec 2006 $25–$30
Langhorne Creek, South Australia
Wolf Blass used to call Langhorne Creek Australia’s mid palate. Situated south of McLaren Vale, near Lake Alexandrina, the area makes juicy, fruity reds, often with a light tease of mint or eucalypt. This blend, commemorating Bleasdale’s founder, combines the region’s unusually fleshy cabernet with dark and fragrant malbec, a variety that fares amazing well there. It’s a powerful, fruity, fleshy combination with abundant but soft tannins.

Dandelion Wonderland of the Eden Valley Riesling 2010 $23–$25
This magnificent, delicate riesling comes from a 2.4-hectare Eden Valley vineyard planted in the late nineteenth century and tended for the last 66 years by 90 year old Colin Kroehn. Fruit was hand harvested from the vineyard, its free-run juice fermented in small batches by Elena Brooks, and the wine bottled without fining or filtration. A trophy at the recent Brisbane show hints at the quality in the bottle – set to reveal itself slowly over the next few decades. This is a winner.

Chalkers Crossing Shiraz 2007 $30
Hilltops, New South Wales
Chalkers Crossing, made by Celine Rousseau, currently offers both 2007 and 2008 vintages of their shiraz, sourced from their own Rocklea vineyard at Young. Hilltop’s not far from Canberra, but its shirazes tend to be fuller and fleshier than ours. Rousseau’s wine sits at the big end of the Hilltops style at 15.5 per cent alcohol, but it’s well proportioned, featuring deep, ripe, vibrant, varietal, savoury fruit flavours, wrapped in plush, soft tannins.

Peter Lehmann Shiraz 2008 $15–$18
Barossa Valley, South Australia
The 2008 vintage was marked by a two-week burst of intense, grape-shrivelling March heat. Despite conditions hot enough to singe Satan, Barossa winemakers went about their work, producing decent wine regardless of the adverse vintage conditions. Lehmann’s 2008 reveals the resilience of the Barossa’s vines and winemakers, providing in it own powerful, grippy way a big mouthful of flavour at a fair price.

Sam Miranda Prosecco 2009 $30
King Valley, Victoria
There’s been quite a rush of Italian sparkling prosecco of varying quality into Australia (the variety’s from northern Italy), mirroring its resurgence over there. Sam Miranda’s version, packaged in the King Valley’s smart-looking proprietary bottle, sits in the mainstream of the style: pale coloured, low in alcohol, with a light flavour and tangy, pleasantly tart dry finish. It’s an easy-drinking , unobtrusive style that’ll never be the centre of conversation, just a pleasant backdrop to a meal, like nice curtains in a comfy room.

Beer review — Murrays and Bridge Road Brewers

21 July 2010Beer reviewChris Shanahan

Murrays Nirvana Pale Ale 330ml $4.50
The label describes Nirvana as a hybrid of the American and English pale ale styles. But to my taste the penetrating hops aroma, full, malty body and assertive, lingering hops flavour and bitterness put it squarely in the American mould. Beautiful, fresh hops are the keynote – a great beer with hot curry.

Bridge Road Brewers Hans Klopek’s Hefe Weizen 330ml $4.50
Shut your eyes and think of Bavarian wheat beer with its high-toned banana-like aroma and flavour and tangy fresh acidity. Brewer Ben Kraus captures much of the magic in this version brewed in Beechworth, Victoria. Ben also offers traditional giant pretzels if you’re down that way – a perfect match with this beer.

How much beer do Aussies drink?

21 July 2010BeerChris Shanahan

How much beer do Australians drink? A fair bit it seems, but less, per capita, than we did five years ago.

Figures released in May by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show we drank 104.7 litres a head in the year to June 2009 – well down on the 109.9 litres we enjoyed back in 2004, when we ranked fourth in the world behind the Czech Republic (156.9 litres), Ireland (131.1 litres) and Germany (115.8 litres).

The ABS figures reveal our clear preference for full-strength and mid-strength beer and a declining taste for low strength brews. Per person consumption of low alcohol beer (above 1.15 per cent alcohol, but less than 3.0 per cent) declined from 11.8 litres in 2007, to 10.4 litres in 2008 and 9.0 litres in 2009.

In the same period, per capita consumption of mid-strength beer (greater than 3.0 per cent alcohol but less than 3.5 per cent) increased slightly from 15.8 to 16.0 litres, while full-strength moved from 78.7 litres to 79.7 litres.

Our total intake of pure alcohol declined from 10.4 litres to 10.08 litres per person over 15 years between 2007 and 2009. Beer accounted for 4.54 litres of this in 2007 and 4.49 in 2009 – making it still our biggest source of alcohol nationally.

Wine review — Tamar Ridge, Bleasdale and Chalkers Crossing

18 July 2010Wine reviewChris Shanahan

Tamar Ridge Tasmania

Devil’s Corner Pinot Noir 2009 $18–$21
Kayena Vineyard Pinot Noir 2008 $28–$31

Devil’s Corner still seems more like grapes than wine, but give it another six months in bottle and it should’ve turned the corner. The fruit flavour’s terrific – pure, ripe, musky pinot backed by fine, dry tannins. It’s sourced from Tasmania’s Tamar Valley and the East Coast. The more robust 2008 comes from Tamar Ridge’s Kayena Vineyard in the Tamar Valley. It’s not as plump as the 2007, perhaps reflecting the vintage, but it has good pinot fragrance, some savoury notes and sufficient fruit to carry the oak. Tamar Ridge is owned by Gunns Limited and managed by veteran winemaker Andrew Pirie.

Bleasdale McLaren Vale Langhorne Creek Tempranillo Malbec 2008 $20–$24
In the good old Aussie cross-regional blending tradition, Bleasdale came up with this novel pairing – malbec from their own Langhorne Creek vineyards and the Spanish variety, tempranillo, from neighbouring McLaren Vale. The wine has malbec’s dense, purple colour. But just where malbec drops off and tempranillo takes over isn’t so apparent in the aroma and flavour. The combination, though, is intensely fruity, bordering on brash. Both varieties carry a fair tannin load so, not surprisingly, the fruit’s mollified by a firm, but not hard, red wine structure.

Chalkers Crossing Hilltops

Riesling 2009 $18
Semillon $18

These are made by Celine Rousseau using grapes from Chalkers Crossing’s Rockleigh Vineyard, near Young. The area makes terrific shiraz and riesling (a natural pairing in Canberra and the Clare Valley, too). The riesling is floral and fragrant and strongly varietal, leaning towards the lemon and lime end of the spectrum. The racy, dry, delicate palate carries these citrus flavours deliciously. It’s a great aperitif. Rousseau’s barrel fermented semillon, too, is bone dry with mouth-watering, tangy lemon and lemongrass varietal flavours, saved from austerity by the barrel-derived creamy texture. This is a popular way to make semillon in Bordeaux, though usually in tandem with sauvignon blanc.

Wine review — Picardy, Grosset, Chapel Hill, Curly Flat, Bourke Street and Mitolo

14 July 2010Wine reviewChris Shanahan

Picardy Shiraz 2008 $25
Pemberton, Western Australia
Dr Bill Pannell founded Moss Wood, now one of Australia’s great cabernet producers, back in 1969 and later sold it to the Mugford family. By 1993 Pannell, having tired of cabernet, established Picardy at Pemberton with his son Dan. Among other wines they make this beautiful, highly aromatic, savoury, chocolate-rich shiraz. It’s a medium-bodied style with silky textured, soft tannins – described by the Pannells as a shiraz for pinot lovers.

Grosset Gaia 2006 $55
Clare Valley, South Australia
Jeffrey Grosset’s Gaia – a cabernet sauvignon (75%), cabernet franc (20%) and merlot (5%) blend – belies the burly Clare stereotype with its sweet-berry fragrance, elegance and comparative austerity. It’s all class, and built for long cellaring – the sort of wine that captures your attention with the first sniff, and the interests grows as you sip through each glass. The more robust 2007 has been released but the 2006 is still available in some retail outlets.

Chapel Hill Old Vine Grenache 2008 $30
McLaren Vale, South Australia
Can red wine and curry co-exist? Our experience is that full-bodied, fruity, soft Australian reds like warm climate shiraz and grenache succeed – as the sweet fruit survives the scorching heat of capsaicin, the alkaloid giving chilli its sting. We road tested Chapel Hill successfully at Jewel of India, Manuka – our sole caveat being that the French oak seemed a little accentuated as the heat rose. Away from the heat, the exuberant fruit and oak harmonised nicely.

Curly Flat Pinot Noir 2006 $46
Macedon, Victoria
At the Winewise Small Vignerons Awards judged in Canberra in early July, Curly Flat 2006 topped a field of French, Australian and New Zealand Pinot Noirs – many, including one from famed Burgundy producer, Domaine de la Romanee Conti, were far more expensive. It’s a sensational wine from Phil and Jeni Moraghan and in the world of pinot noir, it’s positively cheap for this quality. It has more fleshy, mid-palate fruit than the Burgundy style and the tannin structure to evolve for many years.

Bourke Street Canberra District Shiraz 2008 $19
Murrumbateman, New South Wales
The new Bourke Street label is an offshoot of the Nick O’Leary and Collector brands, made by Nick O’Leary and Alex McKay. McKay says there’s some overlap in their grape buying and because they buy whole blocks from growers, not cherry-picking small amounts, they end up with more wine than they need. The result is the refined, elegant Bourke Street shiraz – built on vivid, ripe-berry and spice flavours, fresh acidity and fine tannins.

Mitolo Jester Vermentino 2010 $20–24
McLaren Vale, South Australia
Italy’s white vermentino variety grows principally in Sardinia and Liguria. This one, made by Ben Glaetzer, comes from Frank Mitolo’s vineyard at Willunga, McLaren Vale. It’s just 10 per cent alcohol with simple, fresh-from-the-vine tropical fruit notes dominating the aroma and flavour. The combination of vibrant, fresh fruit, low alcohol and dry, zesty finish make it a good match for light, fresh food. It’s a drink-now wine, so not for the cellar.

Lake George vineyard to be carved up, young guns go their own ways

14 July 2010People, WineChris Shanahan

There are changes afoot in the Canberra wine district, following the departure of two of the district’s most influential winemakers from Lake George Winery late last year. Nick O’Leary left the winery in winter 2009 and Alex McKay followed in December.

Part of the Lake George property is up for sale. And O’Leary and McKay are now making their wines separately – O’Leary at his in-law’s Affleck Vineyard and McKay at a leased winery near Murrumbateman.

The Karelas family bought Lake George Vineyard from founder Edgar Riek in 1998. At Edgar Riek’s urging, following Hardy’s departure from Canberra, Theo Karelas and his son Sam hired Riek, O’Leary and McKay to oversee a complete overhaul of the vineyard in 2007. McKay was to make the wines. And McKay and O’Leary had freedom to develop their own labels, Collector and Nick O’Leary.

Then in March 2008, the Karelas family acquired the adjoining Madew property including land, vineyards and a winery-, cellar-door-restaurant complex. McKay and O’Leary led a rejuvenation of the neglected vineyards and consolidated the winemaking equipment into the Madew cellar. The combined properties produced wines under the Lake George Winery label and the Madew name was dropped.

Speaking from overseas last week, Sam Karelas said he was selling Riek’s original Lake George property but would continue trading from the Madew property under the Lake George Winery name. He said he would continue to operate the restaurant.

Alex McKay said though he left Lake George half way through the growing season, he made two wines from the vineyard in 2010 – a tempranillo and riesling.

He says left Lake George because the winemaking obligation there had become a bit much with his Collector brand beginning to work well and demanding more attention.

In time for the 2010 vintage he arranged to lease a small winery owned by Vikki Fischer at Murrumbateman. Fischer made her Cardinia wines there. But, says McKay, as a working mother with three children she found little time for winemaking.

McKay says it’s an efficient little winery and by adding a few bits and pieces it easily handled vintage 2010.

He made “some nice parcels of shiraz, which was a pretty good achievement in a tough vintage” but hasn’t decide yet whether there’ll be a “reserve” bottling as well as the standard Collector Marked Tree Shiraz.

He also has a single barrel of sangiovese, sourced from Wayne and Jenny Fischer’s Nanima Vineyard, Murrumbateman. But it “may never see light of day”.

The standout wine in 2010, he says, is a Rhone style, oak-fermented white blend of marsanne, roussanne and viognier. “I’m very happy with it”, he adds (given McKay’s modesty, that probably means sensational). He’s also pleased with a 2010 riesling made for the Half Moon Vineyard at Braidwood.

McKay continues to work closely with O’Leary. “There’s a fair bit of overlaps on our grape sources”, he says, and it helps if they both keep an eye on the vineyards. They bring different perspectives, McKay adds. But, more importantly, as vintage approaches each year, they spend a great deal of time visiting and influencing the management of vineyards they’re buying from. Ultimately, fruit quality drives wine quality – and their fussiness in this area shows in the wines they make.

On Friday 2 July, for examples, judges at the Winewise Small Vignerons Awards awarded the trophy for best shiraz to Nick O’Leary Canberra District Shiraz 2009 – further cementing Canberra’s leadership with this style of shiraz.

O’Leary’s success in this credible wine show follows similar applause for Collector Reserve Shiraz 2008, made by O’Leary’s long-time winemaking mate Alex McKay, at the 2010 Royal Sydney Wine Show.

McKay says that when he and O’Leary source fruit from local growers they don’t cherry pick the amount to suit their own brands. If they like a block of vines, they’ll buy the lot as it’s neater for the grower and, it seems, opens other winemaking options – like their just released joint-venture Bourke Street Shiraz 2008 ($19).

McKay says there’s a limit to the volumes they can make and sell at the prices their own brands command (currently around $30 for the standard Nick O’Leary and Collector and $46 for Collector Reserve).

But there’s an opportunity, especially in restaurants, for good quality regional wines at a more affordable $20.

They make all of their shiraz as if it’ll be a component of the premium wines, says McKay. But as they move from oak maturation to final blending, for style, quality or volume reasons they eliminate some parcels. In 2008 these shiraz parcels became the first Bourke Street wine, released recently after a year in bottle. It’s a terrific drop. And there’s a 2009 in the wings, along with a few other wines, to be covered here when they’re released.

The 2009 vintage of Collector Marked Tree Shiraz and Reserve Shiraz are to be released in September and they’ll be reviewed here at the time. We’ll also review O’Leary’s trophy-winning 2009 Shiraz in the near future.

And we’ll just have to wait and see who buys the original Lake George and what they do with it, and how the Karelas family fares with the piece they keep. We’ll catch up with Sam Karelas when he returns to Australia and pass on any news.