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a little “how-to” for the holidays…instructions on something that you should be doing a LOT of this Christmas – Opening sparkling wine!!
Wanted to mark the occasion of hitting 1,000 hits on my blog. Took a while – but it is fun to get here. Thanks and looking forward to another 1,000!!
I read today about an interesting distribution method, potentially saving lots of cash strapped wineries a lot of dosh while also doing some good for the environment. Silvertap wines (silvertapwines.com) skip the bottling of their wines and distribute via casks to their partners (restaurants only at the moment from what I can tell). Each cask
Last weekend, a few of my aussie friends and I rented a cottage in the Cotswolds for a weekend break from the big city. One of the key requirements of any weekend away with friends is a good box of wine. Given that we all love our wine and lean towards aussie and kiwi varietals
So, I have always been a bit traditional with my wine consumption, save for my love affairs with petit verdot and cabernet franc, I generally stick to the company line with chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon, shiraz. However, since moving to London I have had the benefit of trying many new types and styles of European wines
Hello again – Lots to catch up on and way too much time spent away. I am going to start documenting my favorite and not-so-favorite wines again – and this time I hope to keep it up properly! Since I last wrote I’ve moved to London with my day job and have been tasting all
I hope you enjoyed the holiday season and splashed into the new year with family and friends in grand style! We have Martin’s parents over from the UK so we took advantage of the view from Dudley Park Reserve in Sydney to watch the fireworks on the Harbour. After a bit of dancing and a
I shared this bottle with my family during my birthday celebration and it was drinking absolutely beautifully. This is a bottle that I saved for the last 3 years in my cellar in Seattle. Breathtaking. Dense, heavy but elegant – just like a proper Oregon Pinot Noir should be. I have just done a search
I have done it…or shall I say my army of friends, my fearlessly thirsty partner and me have done it. After buying four cases (yes…four entire cases or 48 glorious 750ml bottles) of Adina’s 2005 very last vintage of Petit Verdot, we have officially finsihed the last bottle. I have written about this wine previously…and
Not the best – but tasty enough. I have heard about Bimbadgen from friends but have never had the chance to visit their cellar door. I bought the bottle around the corner from my house in Tamarama, NSW at the bottleshop. Bimbadgen Estate, Hunter Valley/Orange, 2006 Shiraz ~$20AUD
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