Wine Shows: Are the 100 point score totals useful or just confusing? The Winemakers Federation of Australia (WFA) have announced this week that they're reviewing the Code of Practice for the Display of Awards, examining whether …
A question of scoring and barrel samples + some smart 2013 Craggy Range Sophia components Where do you stand on the scoring of unfinished wines (barrel and tank samples)? Personally, I've always shied away from giving a …
Wine Scoring - what do you want to see?I'm at the crossroads.After growing up (in a sense) with one scoring scale - the 20 point Australian wine show scoring - I'm seriously considering switching over …
Scoring wines is such a contentious notion, with everyone having an opinion on it one way or another. Some people hate points, deciding that a single number hardly sums up a wine. But I still …
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.