World Champagne Day is today. Here's the best Champagne I've tried this year to celebrate: The Bollinger La Côte aux Enfants 2013 wasn't the reason why a pack of trade and …
I'm calling it now, the 2016 vintage of the Mumm Millésimé Champagne will be divisive. That's because this release, from an ultra-low-yielding and challenging vintage (punctuated by early frosts and late …
Opening up your very early wines has to be a vulnerable experience. There your babies are, with all their foibles, looking creaky/great. Not that I'd know how this feels, of …
There’s an excellent viral video floating around at the moment that shows how a single drop of whisky can kill millions of bacteria. My body is typically fuelled by wine and …
This is part 2 of my wrap up of the 2024 Negociants Working With Wine seminar series. The attention drifts from Piedmont to Champagne and sparkling wine now (and you …
And I'm back, if briefly. The past few weeks have felt like an endless day as I wrap up a bunch of projects before a long-deserved Balinese reset. I'm tired, sore …
Would you look at that sunshine? Day 2 of judging at the 2024 Winewise Championships dawned with a crisp Canberran day, which proved ideal for me to run up Mt Ainslie, …
It's maddening that we're in a world where grand, ten-year-old Riesling from a legendary vineyard sells for just $52. Or it did, and now it's sold out (as it should …
There are now 85 different wines in the d'Arenberg range. Compared to Treasury, Accolade et al. or even Penfolds, that's small biccies. But for a still-family-owned McLaren Vale operation like d'Arenberg, …
Verticals are fascinating things. For some wines, they show vineyard or winery progressions, as styles and seasons shape how the fermented grape juice tastes. But the story behind the Howard …
In 1999, Andrew 'Thommo' Thomas left his longtime job at Tyrrell's to make a name for himself. After 13 years at what McLaren Vale-raised Thomas fondly calls a Hunter Valley 'finishing …
Just like that, I'm back home, and the lush green hillsides of last week's trip to Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco country are in the rear vision mirror. As promised, I want to …
