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About: corkscrew

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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...