Last night Restaurant Magazine’s San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list was announced in London. It is always interesting to see the changes in the list and from an Australian point of view, we are always quite underrepresented. However, it is always a glorious night – this time at the Guild Hall which is magical [...]
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Shaw & Smith – Balhannah Adelaide Hills is certainly a wine region that catches you by surprise. Before I took a day out to luxuriate in its rolling hills, I would not have believed just how quick it was to get there from the centre of Adelaide. A zippy 30 minutes in my less than [...] I am sure that you will all like this bit of news!! Enjoy!!! Wine good for waistline Waist away … moderate red wine [...] It is not often that you are invited to taste a flight of museum vintages of Rieslings and Shiraz from the Clare valley’s second biggest producer. Kirrihill is celebrating their 10th vintage this year and what better way to mark the occasion than a museum tasting of vintages back to 2001. And it was an [...] This weekend kicks off a week focused on all things vinous from New South Wales whether it is a devine Hunter Semillon, a Canberra Shiraz Viognier or a Griffith sticky. There is plenty of excitement to be found these days amongst the very wide ranging offerings from the Premier State, particularly for those of you [...] Today I have had an epiphany. By now you may have noticed that I often recommend a particular wine as a ‘good alternative to a Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc’… I have certainly not hidden the fact that I find many Marlborough Sauvignon Blancs like an acid bath on sensitive teeth – a bit overwhelming and sometimes [...] I recently took a day trip to the Hunter Valley. It is very easy to forget that this great wine region is still within easy enough reach of Sydney to make it a quick getaway spot. There are still many small producers to discover and that was our aim on this day. [...] there are plenty of great wines in lighter or deeper hues that can inspire the romantic mood of the occasion. And now is the time to start searching for that distinctive bottle for your special someone. Maybe you have a romantic dinner planned and you are after a wine that will happily match the food and [...] I thought that this article from the Sydney Morning Herald today would bring a smile to any wine lover’s (or bird lover’s) face. You know how you often see old CD’s flapping in the wind over the neighbour’s vege patch, well read on ……… Winemaker has a ball as Cockatoos flee TIM ELLIOTT in the Sydney Morning [...] Recently I attended a Sauvignon Blanc tasting that has made me think again about this varietal. I have noticed that there has been a growing number of people who have mentioned to me in the past year that they had moved on from Sauvignon Blanc, just as they no longer touched Chardonnay. I do not [...] |
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