West coast food life

Autumn 08

Resident writer-chef Sophie Zalokar reports.

Long associated with magnificent karri forests and nature-based tourism, Pemberton’s central location within the south west offering a food-bowl of produce and delicious cool-climate wines, demands much more attention than a passing stop over. Discover what the locals have known for a long time...

Autumn 08

WONDERFUL PINOT NOIR FROM THE WEST? YOU WOULDN’T READ ABOUT IT!

Words Peter Hathaway

Pemberton Pinot

I love wine. Over the years, I’ve spent too many hours and overblown conversations honing an appreciation for it. From my University daze majoring in rough reds and pizza, I matured and developed into a S.N.A.Q. – a Sensitve New Age Quaffer, equally adept at quaffing burly reds and delicate whites.

But lately I have been having doubts. I find myself questioning my once catholic tastes. Feeling lost in that broad church, I sense I’m withdrawing into a narrow, puritanical devotion – a follower of one grape. The grape of grapes. The one true grape – Pinot Noir.

It would seem I’m not alone.