first appearances can be very the dizzy201, a combination of nickname and
deceptive. Certainly many people the double hundred, has now been put on the
would not have Jason Gillespie, he of market by thomas K hardy wines in south
the erstwhile long hair and intimidating australia.
goatee, down as someone who is an
aficionado of wine and has just had an it’s a 2005 vintage shiraz which became
australian shiraz named after him. available to buy shortly after gillespie
announced his retirement from international
such was the glamorgan overseas player’s look and state cricket in march, and is now
during a decade playing for australia that he retailing online at $201 (£98) a bottle. a
got some rather unflattering things said and magnum, which is individually signed, is $495.
written about him.
‘’tom hardy got in contact after my 201 and
During the 1997 Ashes series England fans asked me whether i wanted to release a wine.
unkindly chanted at him: the good thing about it is that it’s not any old
wine.
‘’where’s your caravan?’’
it’s actually a good drop,’’ said glamorgan’s
and in the last ashes series in england it was overseas bowler.
written of him: ‘’...with his hippie hair and
spindly legs he looked like an ageing rocker ‘’it’s a high quality shiraz. it will hold for
who had lost his way to glastonbury’’. a good decade or 15 years. it’s a bit of fun
more than anything.
but in real life he is very different from that
depiction, especially since he has lopped the ‘’wine has become a bit of a hobby for me
flowing locks. He is lucid and engaging, and and it just grew. when i got married i insisted
enthusiastic about his hobby of wine, which has we had a cellar in our new house. that cellar
developed to such an extent he has a 1500- holds about 1,500 bottles and i’ve about half
bottle cellar in his home in adelaide. filled it.
as well as that, following his double hundred ‘’i enjoy having a cellar and going down there
against bangladesh in 2005 in the last of his and looking round and seeing what is ready
71 Test appearance for Australia, 33-year-old to drink. i’m a wine fan not a wine snob, and
gillespie has just released his own wine. I’d be lying if I said: ‘I know what I’m talking
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