52. Brookland Valley “Verse 1” Shiraz 2005

Isla got a job. Hooray!

She’d been doing a bit of temping at the English-as-a-foreign-language school while covering someone was on paternity leave but that had come to an end. Luckily one of the agencies she had given her CV to phoned her the day she became unemployed to offer her a 6 month admin job with the Channel 9 TV Station. How cool was that?

OK, so she wasn’t (yet) being asked to be the new anchor-woman for Channel 9 News ala Ron Burgundy, but still it was quite impressive saying that you worked for a TV station even if you were just the tea girl (which she wasn't).

Regardless of what the job was going to be like it still merited a bit of a celebration so we had some Thai food at the sterile but always reliable Thai Express and then picked up a bottle of Brookland Red on the way home.

Basically it tasted the same as every other red we’ve drank since arriving here; big, fruity and full of alcohol. Very palatable despite that but I think we need to start looking at grapes other than Merlot, Cab Sauv and Shiraz.