Tasmania is Australia’s sparkling wine capital. Or Méthode Tasmanoise as Jansz put it. Riesling also thrives in the apple isle and, funnily...
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I haven’t travelled since February – not on a plane, barely on a bus or tube in London, where I live. Tasmania...
Next month Wine Australia is hosting the largest gathering of Australian women winemakers and principals ever assembled. Naturally, there are tastings, both for...
Since I last visited with Nick Glaezter in 2012, he has left Frogmoore Creek to focus 100% on his and his journalist...
Tasmanian winemaker Rebecca (Bec) Duffy told me she was “lucky” that, having taken on Holm Oak in 2006, the brand and seven...
While the Hanigan family, 3rd generation growers at Derwent Estate, have put their back into vamping up their winemaking capability since my...
The annual London Australia Day Tasting (“ADT”) and satellite tastings which surround it presented no shortage of candidates for this post. Not...
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...
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