While the Hanigan family, 3rd generation growers at Derwent Estate, have put their back into vamping up their winemaking capability since my...
Tag Archives: Tasmania
Champagne absolutely dominated the market for fizz when I worked in retail. While first Cava, now Prosecco succeeded in providing a cheaper...
Continuing this week’s ‘turning over a new leaf’ theme, today we switch focus from the Azores to an Australian island. Tasmania’s Derwent...
I tasted so many terrific wines in Australia last month that it has been horribly hard to choose my December Wines of...
Last week’s Australian Alternative Variety Wine Show yielded just one entry from Tasmania – Bronze medal-winning Bream Creek Late Picked Schönburger 2016. Much...
Since I last wrote about Joe Holyman’s impressive Tasmanian Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays have been snapped up by H2Vin. And, in his...
I caught up with Shaw & Smith’s Michael Hill-Smith MW last week who, understandably, was keen to show off his 2012 vintage...
Last Wednesday I wrote up a visit with Vaughn Dell & Linda Morice of Sinapius. During our visit Dell observed, with the...
My last report on Tasmania (here) focused on the island’s biggest new player, Brown Brothers’ Tasmanian Estates. The umbrella brand was established...
The International Cool Climate Conference in Hobart wrapped up yesterday and I head up Tasmania’s east coast today. I’m told it’s gorgeous but,...
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