Travel: Strawberry jam with a hint of rough-as-guts

It’s not a good sign when you finally reach your destination and your wife – instantly – turns to you and says, Sorry.

And then, three hours later, she turns to you again and says, You’re a good sport.

No offence intended but the place that we had spent those mostly-lost, eyes-agog three hours – called Sun World, in the Ba Na Hills behind Danang in Central Vietnam – isn’t exactly my cuppa. After all, Sun World doesn’t just call itself a theme park, but a fairy-themed one. And yet here’s the thing: in among all the weirdness of Sun World there was a small exhibit of great intrigue.

This exhibit was a wine cellar.

FULL STORY HERE.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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