Eileen Hardy Chardonnay is 30 years old this year. A brilliant excuse for this eye-opening, unrepeatable vertical (old stocks are too depleted),...
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Though founded more than a decade after Petaluma in 1989, Shaw + Smith have been one of Adelaide Hills’ modern pioneers. It’s...
I’m dreaming of a white August. These two whites set my pulse running last month. The first, Eileen Hardy Chardonnay 2009,...
If the cool confines of Julian Castagna’s light and airy kitchen provided respite from March’s searing heat, neighbour Rick Kinzbrunner’s underground cellar at...
While the Hunter Valley can take credit for producing Australia’s first commercial release of Chardonnay (Tyrrell’s Vat 47 ‘Pinot Chardonnay’ 1971), it...
I caught up with Penfolds‘ Senior White Winemaker Kym Schroeter last week hot on the heels of his success at the International...
Fuelled by the gold rush, the state of Victoria ruled Australia’s first wine wave in the 19th century. What else accounts for...
Giaconda’s Rick Kinzbrunner was in town this month and I felt super lucky to attend his vertical tasting of one of Australia’s...
Matthew Jukes Best 100 Australian Wines (revealed last month) featured some fabulous Chardonnays in a category which is firing on all cylinders at the moment. An...
This month’s selection focuses on two whites which are just about right for this time of year when we’re thinking about summer,...
Pico, the Azores – the Santorini of Portugal? I have to admit that I’d thought of the Azores…
2011 Vintage Ports round up – 35 Ports reviewed I'm wary of being reductive but, if there's a phrase…
One of the wine world’s great bargains: 2011… A few years ago Luis Sottomayer (Head winemaker for Casa Ferreirinha and…
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Hi Thomas - hoping, should the opportunity arise! Best Sarah
Dear Sarah Ahmed Are you planning or hoping to retaste/evaluate/update your view on 2011 Vintage Port at some stage ? Kind regards Thomas Stilling Denmark