Jamet Cote-Rotie 2010 (Cote Rotie, Northern Rhone, France) Cork, $180ish Do know what the best thing about this wine is? It's genuinely not that expensive. I mean, $200 odd is hardly cheap, but …
More Rhone highlights from the Working With Wine Seminar While the Guigal La La trio was the centre of attention at the recent Negociants Working With Wine seminars, the other wines …
Tasting the 2010 Guigal La La's - totally unaffordable benchmark Syrah Boom! The 2010 Guigal La Landonne hits you like a freight train, all brutish tannins and huge flavours, the wine …
Guigal - the agony, the ecstasy, the prices The best in Guigal When I think of Guigal, one of the things that comes to mind is Penfolds. That connection may sounds odd, …
2011 Winestate World's Greatest Shiraz Challenge Tasting This year marked the sixth iteration of an event known as the 'World's Greatest Shiraz Challenge', a tasting which is effectively an expanded Winestate …
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
