May 30, 2018
A diamon in the rough
How does a winery select the grape varieties to plant on their chosen piece of dirt? For the most part it comes down to what...
May 23, 2018
CHILLING WITH WINTER FORTIFIEDS
I spoke to Chad Elson, who runs the marketing department at Seppeltsfield in South Australia’s beautiful Barossa Valley. I couldn’t think of a better place...
May 16, 2018
The basics of Bordeaux
Australia is awash with more wine importers and distributors than ever, scouring every country and region for the undiscovered rising stars as well as...
May 9, 2018
The land of Henty
Following on from our article last week which covered the cool climate of Orange. This week we cover another cool climate region from a...
May 4, 2018
A delicate drop from a new South Wales locality
Orange wine... no not the one you’re thinking of or seeing pop up on wine list and shelves around the country. I’m talking about wine...
April 25, 2018
GSM – A CLASSIC BLEND
We have written on a number of occasions about wine blends and the virtues of combining different grape varieties in a single wine to...
April 11, 2018
A Happy Hunting Ground
Italy has proven to be a happy hunting ground when it comes to finding wines that offer plenty of variety and prices that mean...
April 4, 2018
Expanding your wine horizons
How do you go about expanding your wine horizons? often it will be serendipitous, wine pairings at a restaurant or having a glass of...
March 28, 2018
Chocolate and wine and all things fine
With easter upon us it seems unfair that the kids get to have all the fun eating copious amounts of chocolate. Let’s face it, you...
March 21, 2018
Moving into autumn red, it’s Malbec time
While we are lucky to still be seeing plenty of sunny weather, autumn has arrived and the days will only be getting cooler from...
March 14, 2018
Finding wines that offer grape value
The search for new, exciting wines never does and never will end. While this is usually confined to going down rabbit holes of finer and...
March 7, 2018
The time has come for autumn whites
As the days begin to shorten, temperatures dip and the slow cookers see the light of day again, it’s time to reset our bearings...
February 28, 2018
Wine and the threshold of perception
Describing wine can be a challenging task Where do you start, that smell is on the tip of your tongue but you can’t quite find...
February 23, 2018
Italian Shiraz still has a sense of place
There is a romanticism to drinking wines that are produced from grapes grown in their native country and particularly the region to which they...
February 15, 2018
Loire offers levels of complexity to enjoy
As the Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc fad continues to fade, the traditional home of Sauvignon Blanc in the Loire Valley of France is as strong...
February 9, 2018
A blended question: where’s the wine line drawn?
It can often be difficult to convince yourself to buy a blend of say Shiraz and Tempranillo or, even as we have found over...
February 1, 2018
When Rieslings weren’t Rieslings
Riesling in the 1960s and 1970s in Australia was often a generic term, not just the formal name of the grape used in making...
January 26, 2018
Enjoy a summer of Riesling
Maybe this will be the year that Riesling takes over the world… unlikely, but if you ask anyone in the wine industry, we are...
January 18, 2018
Torrent of Rose leaves lots to try
There has been a torrent of rose hitting the market this summer. It seems like every winery is trying to cash in on the trend....
January 11, 2018
Ricca Terra’s approach bears fruit
The Riverland region in northern Victoria is often dismissed as the land of cheap commercial wines; over-irrigated, high-yielding, machine harvested fruit that is destined...
January 8, 2018
Vintage 2018 under way
We’re only a few days into 2018 and grapes will be very close to being picked, if not already. The whites will be first in,...
December 29, 2017
New Year is the time to sparkle
As we all know, sparkling wine is synonymous with celebrations; the popping of the cork, the bubbles constantly racing towards the top of the...
December 18, 2017
Be serious and drink it over a couple of days
When customers buy a slightly more expensive or “serious” wine, we often suggest that, if possible, they should drink it over a couple of...
November 29, 2017
Expand your white horizon with Vermentino
This is our second article on expanding your white wine horizons just a little. When we previously covered Viognier, we were starting with the lovers...
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