Did someone say a vertical of Barolo? At a wine dinner? In Australia? Such an occasion is like finding a unicorn shitting rainbows, so when the invite came through from the …
Usually, verticals have a purpose. An excuse for the winery to show off a wine, launch a new one, or just to remind everyone how good something used to be. …
Know what the only problem with the revised Vasse Felix Cabernet range? I can't keep up with the repositioning and relabelling. Heytesbury, from what I can gather, is now just …
Salon 1996 (Champagne, France) 12%, Cork, $700 Source: A gift glass I've been watching the tweets from the Len Evans tutorial this week (hashtag #LET12), lingering enviously over the pictures of epic, occasionally …
Dom Oenothèque – the best from ‘the library’ Superb packaing on this special Dom. Have your platinum Amex at the ready sir (I wrote this article a little over a year ago …
Old Maurice would be proud... A mini Hunter Shiraz vertical I'm a little tardy in writing up these notes, but the following Hunter Shiraz vertical was held in Sydney a few months …
Hunter Valley Tweetup Brilliant old Hunter curio I'm in a house-keeping mood this week, with a little sunshine and a free night or too making for some serious productivity. Or at least …
Premium Shiraz Night June 2010 63 Wyns Hermitage. Amazing. As ever I'm playing catchup at the moment, discovering random forgotten tasting notes in equally random places. These notes have been sitting in …
More old goodies: 98 Petit Cheval, 90 Montrose, 83 Unico + more.... As mentioned here, I've been helping to 'drink out a cellar' recently, a task that is - given the …
These notes come from a tasting that was almost 6 months ago now (so some of the wines might have well changed a bit since) but I think the highlights would remain the …
I've been a bit slack in transcribing my notes from the messy scribbles of my wine wankerish notepad into electronic form, so this is the first of a few compilations …
Tasted recently over dinner at Rubyo's in Newtown (Sydney), this vertical tasting reminded, quite simply, why this wine is considered to be one of Australia's best (and we didn't even …
These two were consumed with home made Lasagne on a warm Sydney Thursday.Philiponnat Clos De Goisses 1996Powerful bubbly from one of Champagne's most famous vineyards. I think one of the …
At 18, I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, slogging through physics and chemistry, so a liquor shop seemed like fun. But then, I fell in love with wine and craft beer, and it took over my life.
Twenty three years later and I spend my days wearing many beverage hats and judge at wine shows around the world...Read more
