Through The Wine Glass

Last Chance to Taste the Award-Winning Ashton Hills Piccadilly Valley Pinot Noir 2021

GREAT NEWS!We have got our hands on a tiny parcel of this popular wine and, with the 2022 vintage expected to produce even smaller amounts, this ma...

Silent Way Pinot Noir 2022: A Jazz Symphony for Your Taste Buds

It's time to jazz up your taste buds with the 2022 vintage of the Silent Way Pinot Noir. This wine is the 10th vintage made from the prestigious Qu...

Mt Bera Vineyards Shiraz 2017: A Celebration of Passion and Expertise

Mt Bera Vineyards Shiraz 2017 is a wine that stands out from the crowd. Produced by acclaimed winemaker Martin Shaw in the heart of the Adelaide Hi...

Canned

Wine in a can screams “solo”. It does not convey the idea this is a product to be shared, discussed and appreciated with others. It reduces the ent...

The Summer Myth

If the weather in your part of the world hasn’t quite got you inflating pool toys and showering outside don’t despair. Simply turn the heating up, ...

Staying Tight

It is arduous, back-breaking labour to ensure our wine dollars are well spent. Spend too much and invite bitter disappointment following on from he...

Tasting Notes 1001

This week, new vintages of some of our more popular wines hit the shelves. It's always a 'heart-in-mouth' moment trying a new release. Will it be a...

Drink Cava! All the cool kids are doing it.

It won’t surprise you to discover you’re being watched. But, before you reach for the foil hat, you might be interested to learn which aspects of y...

The Perfect Pizza Wine (and musings on home delivery services...)

I was thinking about the recent phenomenon of home delivered food. Not that delivering food is a phenomenon but, it appears, the choices have impro...

The Italian Wine Mountain

Suddenly, I knew Chianti. I think of it as my Silence of the Lambs moment. To be more precise, at that point I knew of Chianti while knowing nothin...

Climbing out of your wine rut

Wines made from the ‘noble’ varietals did us quite nicely for decades. Who could want for more than a shiraz or a chardonnay or a riesling? Well, i...

What a Lark! - The Lark Hill wine dinner at Bishop Sessa

The Lark Hill portfolio of wines exhibits considered wine-making at its best. Chris Carpenter's outlook and sensibilities produce flavourful though...