When I taste Jeffrey Grosset’s Rieslings, though I’m sure their tremendous purity and vigour is the perfect cobweb cleaner, I like to feel grounded,...
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I arrived in Tasmania yesterday, my first visit since 2004. Really looking forward to exploring this great natural beauty over the next...
In 2008 I enjoyed a tip top visit with Australia’s Riesling King, Jeffrey Grosset and his partner Mount Horrock’s Stephanie Toole, so...
Crisp and pure as the driven snow, Stephanie Toole’s, Mount Horrocks Clare Valley Cordon Cut Riesling firmly trounces the notion that Australian sweet wines...
Spread across three sub-regions (Murrumbateman/Yass, Hall and the ACT and Bungendore/Lake George), Canberra District may have 140 vineyards and over 30 wineries but, in...
Classic Australian Riesling is, like the classic clothing line, driza-bone, but there’s a growing niche of sweeter styles. Yesterday, I wrote up...
I spent a weekend with Jeffrey Grosset and his partner Stephanie Toole in 2008, whom I interviewed for an in depth feature about...
Situated in Henty in the remote South West corner of Victoria on the border of South Australia’s Limestone Coast, Crawford Estate, together...
Great to spend two weeks this April focused on Riesling from Australia’s foremost regions for the variety: Clare Valley and Eden Valley...
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