I'm in notebook digging mode this week and landed upon my scribbles from this year's Masters of Wine Sydney 2012 Bordeaux tasting. I make it a habit to go to this every year, as it offers …
Chateau d'Yquem 1990-2011: Working With Wine Flight 4 This was the final flight in the 2016 Negociants Working With Wine seminar series and easily the most anticipated. Check out the other flights here, here and here …
Working With Wine Highlights: Flight 3 2007 Sauternes You're probably best starting here for this series of posts. The 3rd flight introduced some bottle age into the equation and, despite it being another strong vintage, I was less …
Working With Wine Highlights: Flight 2 Sauternes 2013 (inc. '13 d'Yquem) Following on from yesterday's Flight of top sweet wines, today it is all about Sauternes, with the excellent 2013 vintage on offer. 2013 is considered to …
This the second part of my report from the recent MW Bordeaux 2011 tasting in Sydney, with the first part here. Fun fact - the only Bordeaux I've ever bought en primeur was Sauternes. Indeed, I've …
Bordeaux 2010: An IMW mega tasting of 20+ top Bordeaux Tasting young Cabernet is hard. Actually, it's not technically hard at all, just unfun. Sure, you can recognise potential, and the great wines do look great. But …
Opalie de Château Coutet 2010 (Bordeaux, France) 14.5%, Cork, $59.95 Source: Tasting www.chateaucoutet.com 'Drink this when you're waiting for your Sauternes to come around.' That's Aline Baly, from the Baly family (owners of Chateau Coutet) talking about the purpose of …
Chateau d'Yquem 2003 (Sauternes, France) $350 (approx 375ml), Cork, 13.5% Firstly, a big thanks has to go to Patrick The Wining Pom for sharing this bottle with us. It was, as Patrick describes so well here, a wonderful experience to enjoy a …
Knappstein Cabernet Merlot 2008 (Clare Valley, SA) $23 It's a solid effort from a tough year, though personally I found it a bit hard going. The wine itself smells pretty good, with cocoa/coffee oak, mint and eucalypt …
Carmes de Rieussec 2005 (Sauternes, France)Cork, $30, 14%The second label of Rieussec and produced in the same manner as the grand vin, this is 85% Semillon, 10% Sauv Blanc & 5% Muscadelle, spending 18 months …
Tasted recently over dinner at Rubyo's in Newtown (Sydney), this vertical tasting reminded, quite simply, why this wine is considered to be one of Australia's best (and we didn't even get started on the more …
Chateau Doisy Daene 2005 (Barsac, France)Cork, $50 375mlI don't drink much Dessert wine. That's not to say I don't enjoy it, but as everyone knows, the situation whence to drink stickies doesn't arrive very …
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.
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