'One good friend, a refugee from the wine trade James Herrick, likes to remind me that I once told him that when I approach the keyboard, 'the milk of human kindness drains out of me'' …
Spring. Time to clean out the garage, wash the doona and keep the flowering plants well watered. Or at least that's what we'll be doing at Graham HQ this spring. Also, I've got a massive backlog …
In a bid to get my tasting notes backlog into order, I'm going to be bulk posting a lot of notes this week in very basic form - ie no pictures etc. It's an April Postalanche. I’m …
What are you buying this July? It's that time again. Following on from this article back in May, I'm keen to know what you're buying (or at least considering buying) this July. My motivation here is simple - …
A few alternate reds from the week. Lino Ramble Tom Bowler McLaren Vale Nero d'Avola 2014 Another smart wine under this label. Handpicked, biodynamically farmed grapes that were wild fermented, basket pressed and then bottled unfined with …
Ah the frustration of the acute accent on the e in rosé! So often missing in action, leaving you to wonder why someone is talking about how delicious it is to drink a flower. I only …
If you've got a few minutes, head on over to Jamie Goode's blog and read this article on the new UK drinking rules. While Australian drinking guidelines aren't quite as stern as those in the UK, …
Curiously, I had just one glass of fizz on NYE, even though 3 bottles of Krug were in the fridge. New Years Eve does that sometimes... Anyway, for this fizz roundup I pulled in a collection of …
It seems like ages ago that I was in Rioja. Ages. A quick look at the calendar, however, and it was just over two and a half months back. Time flies when you've escaped to …
On the back of last night's Malakoff-off, tonight I'm venturing into the rest of the new release Lethbridge range - which this year has a distinctly different (Shiraz) flavour. In 2014, yields at Lethbridge were just …
It seems like every Victorian producer is trying their hand with fruit from the Malakoff vineyard, with this highly respected plot just outside of Landsborough in the Pyrenees now supplying the likes of (just for …
It feels like anything but Riesling weather in Sydney this weekend and I can only feel for the producers at the Wine Island festival who would have endured three days pouring in the wet. Unfun. …
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.