It always surprises me how much interesting Italian wine come to Australia. Loads of it. The only problem is that much of the best doesn't leave the 'on-premise' (restaurants and bars) market, which means that unless …
For this week's sample pile raid I've focused on premium red wines from McLaren Vale, including a whole swathe of new '13 reds. Always interesting to look at a horizontal like this. Of particular note is …
Inkwell Wines Infidels Primitivo 2013 Dudley from Inkwell calls Primitivo his 'little obsession', praising this as a more structured iteration compared to previous years. Wild fermented, this spent 19 months in 28% new French oak, with 8% …
2013 Inkwell releases I'm glad I tried these wines before I met their maker, Dudley Brown. I say that purely because it's harder to be completely objective once you meet a winemaker, especially when that winemaker turns …
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. Read more about me here or get in touch to book your next wine event with me here.