From the dozen or so wines I've tried, I'm delighted to pronounce that 2017 is a great vintage for South Australian Riesling. Ultra late, cool and sometimes damp, it was a season just made for sprightly …
Forgive the clickbait title, but that was how the 'Yves Cuilleron vs Australia' tasting I went to today was pitched. This event, organised by the local Cuilleron distributors, saw 4 of Yves Cuilleron's finest wines up …
Here's a producer that consistently overperforms in the value stakes. Sons of Eden is the brand of ex-Pinnacle Drinks/Dorrien Estate winemaker Corey Ryan and noted grapegrower and viticulturist Simon Cowham (ex-Yalumba) - two well-known figures in …
Premium cask wine - sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it? But it's a concept that one producer, Tote Wines, are trying to breathe life into, releasing a duo of premium 1.5 litre cask wines that are …
A few of the wines to have passed the tasting bench this month that didn't quite make it onto the full site. La Bise Adelaide Hills Pinot Gris 2016 From the Kozned Vineyard in Gumeracha. Light pear …
It's that time again - time to roundup a selection of wines that didn't quite make it onto the site. Some because of time and space, others because they failed the grade, this January 2017 …
The easy joy of Pewsey Vale The Contours Riesling 2011 The wine world would be a better place if more Australians appreciated wines like this. Flowers would smell even sweeter. Birds would tweet even more beautifully. …
Yalumba Eden Valley Viognier 2015 If anyone is going to get Viognier right, then surely it would be Yalumba, who have famously embraced the V weed as their USP variety. Good luck to them. Sorry Viognier, but I …
This is my favourite time of year for drinking current vintage dry Australian Riesling. Sure, plenty of the best wines are nowhere near ready, but that 'just picked' freshness is addictive. This dozen is a selection …
Soul Growers Single Vineyard Eden Valley Riesling 2016 Roll on the '16 Rizzas. I'm interested to see the reception for this Clare/Eden vintage, with plenty of enthused winemakers. To me, it seems to be a good normal …
It's that time again. The following wines didn't quite make it onto the full site this month, and I'm still living out of a suitcase to complicate matters. Yelland & Papps Devote Roussanne 2015 Greenock Roussanne eh? Yelland …
Torzi Matthews Frost Dodger Eden Valley Riesling 2016 Once upon a time - probably 12 years ago now - all I would drink is young Riesling. Back then I would drink Grosset Watervale and Pewsey Vale …
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.
Almost twenty years later and I currently spend my days wearing many (wine) hats, mostly as a writer, presenter and marketer.
While wearing my writer cap I write features for the likes of National Liquor News, Gourmet Traveller WINE and the RAS plus I'm a Lifestyle FOOD channel wine expert.
One of my other caps is as co-founder of Sydney's best wine tasting business The Tasting Glass.
Crowned the 2009/10 Wine Communicators of Australia Wine Journalism 'Young Gun', I have a Masters in Wine Technology & Viticulture from Melbourne University, have judged at numerous wine shows and learnt how to write dumb things in copywriting school.
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