On Tuesday, I blogged about Australia’s rosé revolution, but one aspect of the Australian wine industry’s wider struggle to re-define itself to...
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Australia is undergoing a wine revolution as it struggles to shake off its seriously out-of-date sunshine in a bottle image and seeks to...
When I joined Oddbins, if there was a name on everyone’s lips, it was d’Arenberg. Flagship Shiraz The Dead Arm was referred to in...
Not heard of Mudgee? Though I had (it’s a wine region in New South Wales, Australia), I’d never tasted the wines. So...
Yesterday was as convivial a Monday as they come. A tasting followed by lunch with Penfolds’ urbane Chief Winemaker-cum-globetrotting ambassador, Peter Gago...
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...
In recent years, Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays from Mornington Peninsula have really excited not just me, but also consumers to whom I’ve...
It’s day two of Brokenwood’s 40th birthday celebrations here in the Hunter Valley today and pretty much every wine they ever showed...
These last 2 days in Orange, New South Wales has really brought home the impact of elevation on vineyards. This cutting edge cool...
Not the usual picture (it’s the tasting room at London HQ), though I have visited Jacobs Creek Down Under twice. The first time, in...
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