Oh my it is hot!!!!! - Over 40 degrees - the caravan air con is working overtime but not really accomplishing much and the two fans are going flat out.
Decided this morning to go for a bit of a drive - headed out for Bethany - a town which sounded really lovely in a brochure but really did not amount to much. Progressed on to Mengler's Hill lookout - can see vineyards for miles and it has its own sculpture symposium......wandered around to take a look at a few of them but it was too hot to see all of them. Zac and Ethan enjoyed collecting a few shiny bits of quartz and granite from where the sculptures were carved.
Since this trip was planned visiting the Seppeltsfield winery was on the list - some wonderful old buildings and it is also the oldest vineyard. After finding some banana paddlepops for the kids we headed in to the cellar door where we were able to try a few of their different products. The kids were offered some raspberry cordial which apparently uses Joseph Seppelts recipe from his personal recipe book - now kept under lock and key is his old bedroom. On reading the bottle - we noticed it has preservative 211, food acids and colour. Now I am pretty sure the original recipe did not use these things and probably had real raspberries in it - so the claim might be a little stretched. We bought a bottle of cordial, a sparkling red chardonnay and a bottle of Cellar 7 tawny port.
Home for lunch, naps and trying to keep cool anyway possible.
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Ah! - which one should we choose??
ReplyDeleteDeep in thought??
Try to keep cool - we will try to do the same.
Love N & G
Thank goodness you have the a/c, even if its not great at cooling! Good to see the kids still smiling, hope they're not bothered too much by the heat.
ReplyDeleteAs for Joseph's recipe, maybe he did add preservative 211 - it may be something common, but now has to have a fancy number!!
Enjoy yourselves,
Love K, A, H & Qld N