Last month, Mitchell Taylor, MD of Wakefield Wines, presented a comprehensive low down about the challenges and opportunities of the 2020 vintage...
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Cloud. Rain. Not quite the weather we expected to encounter on day 1 of Arblaster & Clarke’s vintage tour of South Australia...
Remember the tagline “Australians wouldn’t give a XXXX for anything else,” from the 1980s/90s advertisements for Castlemaine beer? I’m surprised I do because...
August is a quiet month in the wine trade tasting calendar. Praise be it’s less about tasting, more about drinking. September’s Wines...
In the second of this week’s video interviews with Australian winemakers about the 2011 vintage, I speak with Stephanie Toole of Mount...
Classic Australian Riesling is, like the classic clothing line, driza-bone, but there’s a growing niche of sweeter styles. Yesterday, I wrote up...
This is my 3rd report on the annual Australia Trade Tasting. Having already covered Pinot Noir & Chardys and Cult & Boutique’s...
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, great post, thank you very much! Looking forward to the other announced ones! Hope you are also going to review Pintas VP '18
Hi Wilfried, thanks for your comment - I couldn't agree more about Riesling and, like you, I'm a big Steingarten and Grosset fan. I'm […]