Welcome to tranche 2 of the #MonthofAndrew wines. I probably haven't hit the cellar as hard this birthday with the imminent baby arrival (just over two weeks until due date), but this collection - opened at …
You'd think that the daughter of Piedmont producer Angelo Gaja - long feted as a king of Italian wine - would be anything but approachable. Gaia Gaja is exactly that. Seriously attractive, well spoken and disarmingly …
8 fine Aussie and Italian Nebbiolo I'll be the first to admit that Australia is yet to 'crack' the Nebbiolo formula. Sure, as some of the wines in this tasting show, we're producing good wines. Real good …
From the notebook: Grand Italian Wines from the Grandi Marchi Masterclass I was doing a little tidying tonight of some old unpublished notes and discovered this little gem - a collection of reviews from the Grandi …
Working With Wine: The Nebbiolo Sessions It's rare when you leave a large tasting and immediately start thinking about how much wine you can buy. Bu there I was, trawling through Wine Searcher doing the maths …
Giuseppe Rinaldi Brunate Le Coste Barolo 2009 (Barolo, Italy) Cork, €70 Source: Retail Giusppe Rinaldi cellar I managed to snare a visit to the Giuseppe Rinaldi winery when I was in Barolo in September, managing to interrupt Marta Rinaldi …
Giuseppe Mascarello Barolo Monprivato 2006 (Barolo, Italy) Cork, €100Source: Wine List http://www.mascarello1881.com Tasted Drunk two months ago, at Restaurant Bovio - which is the sort of Piedmont restaurant that has people (like me) taking too many pictures on …
Charismatic imports from Xavier Bizot's Terroir Selections Nice lineup of imports here.. I've talked before about the good work of Xavier Bizot, Tapanappa and Terre a Terre GM, but that's previously been largely in an Australian context. …
Luciano Sandrone Barolo Cannubi Boschis 2006 (Piedmont, Italy) 14.4%, Cork, $250 Source: Instore tasting (I went back for seconds) Ahh Barolo (and Barbaresco for that matter), I love thee. I can't afford to love thee, but I do …
At 18 I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, doing a degree that I didn't really like, and a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say I discovered wine, my uni degree morphed into something completely different and wine/beer took over my life.
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