The good people at Single Vineyard Sellers have been decanting a selection of premium imports from their portfolio into Coravin-branded sealed mini bottles, which I'm totally ok with. It sounds …
I had to Google Cri de Couer, as my French is pretty rubbish (Italian is much better, but still cosi cosi), and Mirriam-Webster tells me it's a 'passionate outcry' (and …
There's a style shift happening in local Chardonnay, and it's very welcome. After years of the needle shifting too far into 'acidic grapefruit and milk bottle water' territory, there's a …
The Lake George Vineyards look so innocuous from the road. How can this storied part of the Canberra wine world feel like it's just a forgotten toilet stop off the …
I can't overrate these wines. Deep Down is the Marlborough wine project of Clive Dougall (ex-Seresin winemaker and viticulturist) and Peter Lorimer (Kiwi wine promoter and distributor), who mortgaged their houses …
Blind tasting is a grand sport. No other exercise can so effectively take the bullshit out of wine while also threatening to blow up a reputation. It's like a road …
Today is #ChampagneDay, which means nothing to anyone but wine marketers, yet it is a great excuse to talk about Champagne. And earlier in the week, John Noble, the head …
Sasha Degen slipped a few bottles of the Degen estate wines into a box for me to take home during my 36-hour Hunter adventure back in July. Now they're open …
Marlborough Chardonnay somehow bucked the trend to ditch the toasty style and remains a destination for thick Chardonnay that is now back in fashion (if it ever really went away). …
It’s that time again. Time to inspire me to spend more money on drinks, even though the WineArk cabinet can’t be closed properly and the Amex is maxed out. So, what …
Good things come in small packages, and great wines are often made in meagre quantities - just like the 2022 About Time release. Made by Henry Borchardt & James McLeay, there …
The Hunter Valley has some of the oldest Chardonnay vines on the planet (the HVD Vineyard, planted 1908) and a storied history of the country's best Chardonnay wines. Yet, if …
