To ‘moderate’ was my challenge for Wine Australia’s Rutherglen Muscat webinar last week. Rutherglen Muscat is one of the world’s headiest, most...
Tag Archives: Australian fortified wine
Portuguese fortified wines have been my focus this last week (watch out for my top tips in next Monday’s post) but, in...
If memory serves me correctly, Hardys served a delicious, very moreish oloroso style Apero as an aperitif at the 160th anniversary tasting...
As you know I’ve been in Rutherglen all week, mostly judging at the 125th Rutherglen Wine Show, which incorporates The Australian Fortified...
I’m just back from Oporto and, invited to dinner with a winemaker who loves to blind taste, took the opportunity to “take...
Thanks to last September’s Landmark Tutorial fortified masterclass (reportedhere), I knew that Seppeltsfield was an oasis of jaw-droppingly good fortified wines – the best...
At this year’s Big Fortified Tasting I made a bee-line for Wine Australia’s multi-producer/multi-regional stand. No surprises that Rutherglen’s producers stood out. My favourite? Chambers Rosewood...
It’s a snowy morning here in London and, with temperatures set to plummet to minus six degrees centigrade tonight and minus eight...
This year, for the first time, an Australian wine scored 100 points in The Wine Spectator. It was a fortified wine and, if you’ve...
Fortified wines dominated Australian winemaking until surprisingly recently. In 1960, 80% of Australian production was fortified! These days, sales of fortified wines...
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 Sarah, Thanks for this great post! Reading your reviews makes me happy that I have a few bottles of (the regular) Noval from 2015 onwards!! All
Thanks for the suggestion. I know Lance Foyster quite well. However I have just found the Wine Society are now listing an Encruzado for £15.50