Last week (here) I wrote up quite the most amazing aged Australian Riesling – Jim Barry Watervale Rhine Riesling 1977 – 36...
Tag Archives: Clare Valley Riesling
I’ve been a spoiled with museum release tastings lately. What with Jim Barry Riesling and Shiraz verticals yesterday and the Landmark Riesling tasting...
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,...
Stephanie Toole of Mount Horrocks‘ excitement about 2011’s Clare Valley Rieslings came through loud and clear in yesterday’s video post (here). This year, she’s...
Prepping for a tasting of Jeffrey Grosset’s and Stephanie Toole’s wines last Friday got me in the mood for Clare Valley Riesling. Good timing because...
In 2008 I enjoyed a tip top visit with Australia’s Riesling King, Jeffrey Grosset and his partner Mount Horrock’s Stephanie Toole, so...
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...
Great to spend two weeks this April focused on Riesling from Australia’s foremost regions for the variety: Clare Valley and Eden Valley...
I fully expected to be bowled over by the highly accomplished Rieslings for which this region is famous, even the Shiraz, for...
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