What Wine Goes With Emu?

We continue to meet the nicest people everywhere we go in Australia. We are rapidly coming to the conclusion that ALL Aussies are nice.

Stopping for breakfast in Wilpena Pound – a beautiful amphitheatre of mountains in the middle of the Flinders Ranges where we had camped the night before – we met Matthew and Kim and their kids. Like almost every Aussie we’ve met, they had both traveled the world and they swapped tales of long drives across the American west or visiting Hungary and paying the way working in wineries.

As we were all getting ready to leave, they asked what kind of wine I liked. I joked that we needed something that would go with emu as we were staying that night at the Prairie Hotel in Parachilna whose speciality was ‘Feral Mixed Grill”. Matthew and Kim pulled from their stash a bottle of Barossa Valley cabernet sauvignon from Black Wattle winery and hoped we’d enjoy their country.

The wine went superbly with my chargrilled kangaroo fillet with sweet potato puree, saltbush gnocchi, warrigal greens and red wine chilli quandong jus.

The Australian welcome never stops.