Focusing on South Australia’s cooler climes – the Piccadilly Valley (Adelaide Hills’ highest, coolest, wettest sub-region) and Wrattonbully – Terre à Terre’s...
Tag Archives: Australian sparkling wine
Wine Australia’s annual Australia Trade Tasting, which kicks off my year, is always fertile ground for my Wines of the Month. Seasonally,...
When I visited Tasmania last November, I just missed Effervescence, Tasmania’s sparkling wine festival. This week, I received a press release about...
This month Decanter reported on world wine consumption trends. Ten years ago (which is when I visited the region), who would have believed...
I have mixed feelings when I crack open another bottle of Arras Grand Vintage 2005. Great pleasure because it’s fabulous. And a twinge...
This is my first post of 2015 – Happy New Year! May it be healthy, happy and chock-full of great wine, like...
Earlier this year, amidst much fanfare, Berkmann Wine Cellars announced the revamp of their Australian wine range – “the most significant range...
If you like your fizz deep and complex but with plenty of backbone, Australian sparkling wine Brown Brothers Patricia Brut might just...
Today’s seasonal treat is a palate cleansing Tassie fizz, Pirie Estate Brut NV, which is guaranteed to blow any cobwebs away. At any...
For me, Tasmania sparkler Jansz Non Vintage will forever be associated with celebration, as will the small town of Denmark, Western Australia. It...
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