“Oww the bubbles are burning my tongue!” Recently on a wine tour, one of the other members was an employee of Dan Murphy’s. After talking to him and discussing the brands Woolworths owned, I decided I should at least try them, I mean I’m aware they’re not doing the wine industry huge favours pushing wine … Continue reading
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What impresses me in Cellar Door Employees?
Working a cellar door isn’t just pouring wine and making up terms for how the wine smells and tastes, well hopefully it isn’t. I want knowledge, real knowledge, more than I could get myself if I read the tasting notes in front of me. Firstly, make people with little wine knowledge feel comfortable. There are … Continue reading
Bons Ventos Vinho Regional Lisboa Tinto 2009
Buying this wine was quite lucky, I was just in Vintage Cellars for a look and came across this. It was trying the new varieties that really had me hooked; Castelao, Camarate, Tinta Miuda and the slightly more familiar Touriga Nacional. I pretended to browse the rest of the store while looking up the grapes … Continue reading
Borgo Cipressi Toscana 2011 (Sangiovese)
Tonight after a lovely email, I am getting back into my wine blog, as tough as it ever is to drink and write about wine. After a fair bit of Shiraz and Cab Sauv on the weekend I wanted something different; luckily in my select collection I still had a bottle of lovely Borgo Cipressi … Continue reading
Mystery Wines
I have a confession. I am addicted to signing up to most wineries mailing lists and other wine sales email lists I can find. It’s a problem. I know I do it. I don’t really need to, but yet I can’t stop myself. I do enjoy perusing the many wines on my lunch hour and … Continue reading
Annie’s Lane Clare Valley Cabernet Merlot 2009
I’m back. I’ve finally gotten over uni work, exams, the Christmas period and now I’m ready to focus back on wine, and to stop people saying ‘what’s happening with your wine blog’ all of which I have to thank because it has forced me to get into it again. To start myself back into this … Continue reading
Low GI Shiraz? Summer Hues 2010 Shiraz
Summer Hues Shiraz 2010 – Miranda – $11 Okay first off, I bought this expecting to hate it. I like full bodied wines, I dislike the idea of taking something like wine and bastardising it to fit in with some diet, that will inevitably be broken within a week or two in some huge … Continue reading
TINY UPDATE – Ingoldby Grenache Shiraz review
Just a quick note – I should have realised when it had grenache in it, but when I tried to have another glass last night it had oxidised very fast and wasn’t anywhere near as good. This is a characteristic of grenache and it isn’t a wine fault, but it is something I should have … Continue reading
Ingoldby Grenache Shiraz 2011
I had a realisation this afternoon that most people who have been reading this aren’t as likely to go out and search for the odd wines that I seem to gravitate towards, so for this review I went to the local bottle shop and bought this hoping that it was more easily accessible, the reasonable … Continue reading
An unplanned visit to Langhorne Creek
When I woke up on Sunday I had every intention of attending the Adelaide Hills ‘Winter Reds’ Festival, but when Luke and I arrived at the first vineyard and saw the number of cars we quickly realised it wasn’t really what we wanted. I prefer going to cellar doors when there are less people there so I … Continue reading
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