Checking on some back vintage Fontanafredda Barolo (because why not)?
Did someone say a vertical of Barolo? At a wine dinner? In Australia? Such an occasion is like finding a unicorn shitting rainbows, so when the invite came through from the …
Did someone say a vertical of Barolo? At a wine dinner? In Australia? Such an occasion is like finding a unicorn shitting rainbows, so when the invite came through from the …
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 …
I googled Tignanello this afternoon while on the hunt for some information about alcohol percentage (didn't learn much), and discovered that the name is better known as a handbag brand …
In cycling, they call an individual time trial (ITT) the 'race of truth'.It's a great description because in an ITT you have nowhere to hide. No teammates to take the …
Chateau Tanunda - rare verticals of some well priced Barossans 'I needed a chateau' John Geber Who doesn't need a chateau really? I do love that John Geber bought Chateau Tanunda on something …
Katnook Estate Cabernet vertical: 1981 - 2011 This tasting was from 18 months ago, yet given the age-worthiness of the Katnook Cabernets I'm not worried about these wines falling over... But let's …
A decade of Dog Point Wine tasting becomes that much more special when there's emotion involved - and there was a helluva lot of soul-baring at the recent Decade of Dog …
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 …
Hardys Eileen Hardy through the ages - Chardonnay, Shiraz and Pinot Noir verticals I've been rifling through some old paperwork this weekend and chanced upon my notes from a rather special …
From the notebook treasure-trove: Tahbilk verticals I've been doing a bit of cleaning this weekend and, in typical form, have turned up a whole treasure-trove of old tasting notes from last …
Leconfield Cabernet - the last 10 years Did you know that the Hamilton family - who founded Leconfield - have been vignerons for 175 years? I didn't. It's an impressive figure …
Capel Vale CabernetsCapel Vale Wines - verticals ahoy!Looking back through my notes on this site I find that there is a rather curious omission - there are no decent Capel …
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 …
At 18, I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, slogging through physics and chemistry, so a liquor shop seemed like fun. But then, I fell in love with wine and craft beer, and it took over my life.
Twenty three years later and I spend my days wearing many beverage hats and judge at wine shows around the world...Read more
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