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Non-stop mockery

Kirsten Lawson
Kirsten Lawson

The sight of Tim Kirk plaintively calling after a receding car of filmmakers, “But I’m winemaker of the year”, is one you won’t see often from a winemaker more used to being venerated than mocked. But when Chris Taylor from the Chaser team is involved, you take it as it comes.

Kirk, and filmmaker Nathan Earl, isn’t the only one on the end of this good-natured mockumentary, launched this week at youtube.com/roadtoplonk. Nick Spencer at Eden Road is unceremoniously spat on as Taylor tries to master the niceties of cellar-door swirling and spitting, and Ken Helm loses a load of red wine through the bungling of a film crew member.

Taylor fronts the online only, five-part series called Plonk, which starts today with an episode on the Murrumbateman area. The film crew is ostensibly looking for a female winemaker. And it finds her in the form of Jaime Crowe, from Four Winds, filmed with a busload of women at a hen’s party.

Also part of the show is the Capital Wines cellar door at Gundaroo.

Kirsten LawsonKirsten Lawson is news director at The Canberra Times

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