'On Location' Photo Competition
2002 - 2004
2003
Regular RGS drinkers in South Australia's far north, Maree Morton from Innamincka Station and Darryl Bell from Dulkaninna Station at the Causeway at Innamincka on Good Friday with a Cooper Creek Yellowbelly and a 2003 RGS Verdelho.x
2003
Jane Doyle from Adelaide, Janine Litchfield from Mundowdna Station south of Marree and Sharon Bell from Dulkaninna Station on the Birdsville Track enjoying a drop of 2003 RGS Verdelho in the Cooper Creek at Innamincka in the far north of South Australiac.
September 2004
Dr Vin O'Brien from Adelaide on the SA/NT border border, with a pea and an RGS red.
Sept 2004
Julian Hipwell from Qld, a 747 pilot loosing his marbles and having a devil of a time with a bottle of 2003 RGS Shiraz at Devil Marbles NT.
Sept 2004
A big bloke with a big bottle at a big cattle station. Doyle at VRD with a 2002 RGS Shiraz - Victoria River Downs Station NT.
Sept 2004
A big bottle for the big bottle tree near Derby WA. The tree was used as a detention centre (things don't change much) in the late 1800s. RGS regulars Pat, Brendan, Paul, Catherine and Julian with a 2003 RGS Shiraz.
2004
Istanbul: the cross roads between Asia and Europe for several millennium. Sitting in the roof-top restaurant of the Fhemi Bey Hotel, Saltanamet, Josephine Wall and Geoff Playford sipped their RGS 2002 Cab/Sav while viewing the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus, with the Blue Mosque in the background. The Fhemi Bey Hotel is a quaint Ottoman Hotel and as can be seen in the photo only a stones throw from the heart of old Istanbul.
The Blue Mosque is one of the more modern buildings in this part of town, It was completed in 1616 and it gets its name not only from the blue stone used in its construction, but also from the extensive use of Iznic Tiles on the interior walls.
For the shop-a-holic there is the Grand Bizaar. A labyrinth of narrow streets and alleways containing 4,500 shops, restaurants and workshops, all under cover. It’s easy to get lost, that’s part of the adventure. The photo is of Jo and Geoff at one of the drinking fountains. We’d like to have included a bottle of RGS in the shot, but you don’t go walking the streets of Istanbul carrying wine.
Speaking of wine, in the Cappadocia region they carry on the Ottoman-Greek wine making tradition, with dry whites and a range of reds. When you first see the vines it looks like they are growing in white river sand, but this white soil is actually volcanic ash and is quite fertile. The region is known for its cave houses and churches, but there are also pigeon houses everywhere. Before commercial fertiliser, the vintners all had huge flocks of pigeons and they used the pigeon droppings as fertiliser.
We both had a great time in Turkey. It is not a dry zone as there are bottle-shops all over the place. If you’re into history, archaeology and shopping Turkey is a great destination.
June 2004
Inca Edgar unveiling RGS 2002 Malbec artifact at Muchu Picchu, Peru.
2004
‘Tall and tan and cool and lovely the bottle on Ipanema is waiting ......... '
RGS 2002 Malbec.
June 2004
RGS 2002 Malbec appears above Cusco - Incas rule O.K?
Cusco Peru.
April 2004
Jenny and Trevor Twigden at the Great Wall in China with a bottle of RGS 2003 Grower Shiraz on Thursday, 22/4/04. Here we are on the Great Wall of China with many thousands of Chinese citizens that that visit the Wall daily, and share its amazing beauty with overseas visitors.
With us is our bottle of good Langhorne Creek red …….. that travelled with us in our back pack from the Antipodes, ignored by Ozzie customs, and survived the many thousands of steps up the Great Wall. We felt a remarkable bottle of SA red was well worth taking to one of the marvels of the ancient and modern world – perhaps it can be seen from outer space too.
The climb to the top was a great personal achievement for Jenny who had foot surgery in November.
April 2004
A bloke needs a dozen 2002 Malbec to take on the Birdsville Track in the far north of South Australia - Ian Doyle