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

Written By Campbell Mattinson

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, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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