Georgie: The Wine She Was Told Not To Name. So She Named It Anyway.

This is a classic.

Yes, totally.

This is plenty of ups and downs.

So talk about the grape and the origin of the grape itself.

So the first funny thing about the grape, the shui reibei, is there are 16 different ways to say it, if you Google it.

So that in itself was quite challenging.

So I pronounce it shui reibei, but there are lots of different ways of saying it.

Can I just admit something? When you first told me that, I thought you were having something wrong with your speech.

I was like, what did you just say? I'd never heard of a grape or a wine called shui reibei.

That's right.

And you wouldn't really hear it in the southern hemisphere because we're one of the only producers in the southern hemisphere.

So you wouldn't have heard of it.

It's hard to say.

And so the first thing we had to address was, you know, what do we do about that?

Yeah.

Yeah, you can't call it charade, eh? It's

like Gewurztraminer, nobody wants to say it, but first of all, I don't even know if I said it correctly then, but even if you have, I think there's a connection to something that you have a difficulty pronouncing, and I think that was one of the things that we really needed to...

First of all, there was the style of the wine.

That's one story.

And then there was the naming of the wine either way.

So we had a few challenges.

And then, of course, when we bought the vineyard, this Shui Wei Bei, which was a bottom block and it was very neglected and overgrown with weeds, the advice that we had at the time was to pull it out.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

So nobody liked Shoe Ray Bay, and so they were like, pull it out.