The week ahead is looking like doing some tasting notes (Joch I need some tasting feedback from you please for the 2009 Shiraz, 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon and 2009 Spring Seed Shiraz), bottle shots, trying to finalise the Battle of Bosworth brochure which I have been working on for light years, as well as fitting in a trip to the cinema to see ‘Toy Story 3’ in 3 D with the junior Bosworths.

On Sunday afternoon in the midst of all this planning we had a visitor. A VIP in fact – Joel Amos, the architect of the original Battle of Bosworth website, a Willunga boy by birth and now based in Sydney working in the music industry. Before getting into the muso industry he worked at 2 of the best wine stores in the country, East End Cellars in Adelaide and Best Cellars on Crown Street in Sydney.

I met Joel as a very young man at Penny’s Hill in the early part of the noughties when Joel was fresh out of a wine marketing degree at Adelaide Uni. I think I took over his desk actually at Penny’s Hill, so it is a miracle he is still talking to me. Anyhow, Joel has just returned from a European eating tour of the top restaurants on the San Pellegrino list of 2010. Sounded amazing. Great to see you Joel. xxxx