The Almost Club: November 2017 edition
November 27, 2017
As you can see the volume of posts has dropped off a bit lately as I'm still not feeling great. My ankle issues turned out to be an arthritis flare …
November 2017
A look at the full lineup from NZ’s biggest biodynamic winery Seresin
November 16, 2017
'Good things come to those who wait.' That's the motto at Seresin, the Marlborough-based winery that prouds itself as an uncommon, 'new world winery with an old world approach'. Actually, they're not …
How do the same super premium Cabernets look two years later?
November 13, 2017
Two years ago Xavier Bizot of Terre à Terre held a tasting comparing a selection of the 'old world' of the new world. A group of wines that you'd call …
Riesling 2017: It just keeps delivering
November 6, 2017
This is the year to be getting into (or back into) Australian Riesling. I hate broad vintage generalisations in Australia (which is too massive and varied for any sort of generalisation …
Is this the Australian Grenache moment?
November 3, 2017
In theory at least, Australian Grenache just had a jumpstart. For the first time ever, a Grenache has won the most famous wine award in Australian wine, with the Turkey Flat …
