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 …
It's a wine tasting format that I wish more Australian winemakers would embrace. Winemaker A, usually from the New World (or a less fancied producer/appellation), puts their wines up against global …
Coonawarra celebrates 130 years of winemaking this year. That's a handy innings for any wine region, let alone here in the colonies. 130 years is also long enough to get …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Working With Wine Fellowship is a national tasting program put on by the Australian distributor and importer Negociants. Held biennially, this fabulous seminar series sees Negociants (Negs to anyone …
I clicked over to 43 years on the planet last week, which is always an excuse to open all the wines. It's now 24 years in the wine/drink industry for me, …
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 …
The giant Taste Champagne trade and consumer event rolled through Sydney yesterday, with some 68 Champagne houses pouring 200 cuvées. It was large. It’s always large, really, with the thickest crowds …
I love these tastings, The Young Guns of Wine (YGOW) is an annual awards program designed to celebrate new/young wine producers. But YGOW has now expanded beyond the awards to a …
I never miss this tasting. Every year, the Sydney Royal Wine Show throws open the doors for a trade/exhibitor tasting of all everything entered into what is one of Australia's famous, …
