Today I received a glowing review of 2014 Our Fathers Shiraz.

http://www.wineanorak.com/wineblog/syrah/our-fathers-barossa-shiraz-2014

 It is a wine conceived amidst the grief of losing my father and nurtured and brought to fruition while coming to terms with my mother’s suicide and my own ill health. That one sentence doesn’t really do justice to the horror, sadness and confusion that, as a family, we have all borne.

But next week, I head back to the big skies of Australia for the third vintage of Our Fathers. In doing so, I am reminded just how quickly time flies and also how much we must cherish what we have in the present, while learning from the past.

With every pruning scar on every vine, our forefathers have made their mark on this landscape and, in drinking Our Fathers we remember all of those who have gone before us – making the present all the more enjoyable.