Working With Wine Highlights: Flight 3 2007 Sauternes You're probably best starting here for this series of posts. The 3rd flight introduced some bottle age into the equation and, despite it being another …
Working With Wine Highlights: Flight 2 Sauternes 2013 (inc. '13 d'Yquem) Following on from yesterday's Flight of top sweet wines, today it is all about Sauternes, with the excellent 2013 vintage …
The biannual Vin de Champagne Awards rolled through Sydney again this week, with this year's winners celebrated at a black tie event at the Four Seasons on Monday night. I was lucky …
I googled Tignanello this afternoon while on the hunt for some information about alcohol percentage (didn't learn much), and discovered that the name is better known as a handbag brand …
What a disappointment this lineup was. So many boring wines, with too many edging towards flavourless, acidic water territory. Obviously price plays an important part here, but that doesn't excuse …
It's always fun benchmarking wines against the classics. Always. Even when the comparison 'contender' wine is shit, the tasting at least can be a good quality calibration exercise. Thankfully, the …
In cycling, they call an individual time trial (ITT) the 'race of truth'.It's a great description because in an ITT you have nowhere to hide. No teammates to take the …
You'd think that the daughter of Piedmont producer Angelo Gaja - long feted as a king of Italian wine - would be anything but approachable. Gaia Gaja is exactly that. Seriously …
Chateau Tanunda - rare verticals of some well priced Barossans 'I needed a chateau' John Geber Who doesn't need a chateau really? I do love that John Geber bought Chateau Tanunda on something …
Sneak peak at 2012 Torbreck RunRig and more from Game of Rhones Today was the Sydney instalment of Game of Rhones, a clever event from Dan Sims' Bottleshop Concepts. What it …
Bordeaux 2010: An IMW mega tasting of 20+ top Bordeaux Tasting young Cabernet is hard. Actually, it's not technically hard at all, just unfun. Sure, you can recognise potential, and the great …
Shaw + Smith Pinot Workshop 2015 - 10 benchmark Pinots from around the world I'll always admire a winery that puts their wines up non-blind against the benchmarks of the world. I …
