With my wife and daughter busy with the final rehearsals leading to the opening night of Turandot at the end of the week, opera is very much on my mind. What I did not expect was to find 3 bottles of a set of four wines on the shelves of one of the supermarket chains, sporting the label La Boheme (both operas were by Giacomo Puccini). The wines turned out to be from the De Bortoli stables and the name celebrated the fact fact that the famous Australian diva Dame Nellie Melba came from the Yarra Valley, where these wines originate. One of her famous roles was as Mimi in La Boheme.
As you can see, Act One is a Riesling, Act Three a Pinot Gris and Act Four a Syrah Gamay. What is missing here is Act Two, a dry Pinot Rose according to the website. The opera itself contains a tavern scene where the main protagonists eat, drink and order different types of wines, though they do not really correspond to the ones in this range.
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