A world without the Aussie wine show: Part Two
--Christina Pickard Continued from Part One Another aspect of the wine show that gets rarely gets mentioned but is all-too-often an elephant in the room, is bullying. I suspect so…
--Christina Pickard Continued from Part One Another aspect of the wine show that gets rarely gets mentioned but is all-too-often an elephant in the room, is bullying. I suspect so…
--Christina Pickard Moving from the UK to Australia, after having grown up in the United States, is hardly a culture shock. The language is mostly the same, the food is…
Buying wine is as much about refreshment and renewal as plugging theoretical gaps in wine portfolios, the principle being that you should & would drink the wines yourself. Consequently, we…
So what are the new wines that are fit to make it into print? Part One â French Polishing Up  SW France ~ Languedoc~ Roussillon Nicolas Carmarans - Maximus…
In an effort to encourage more outside voices on our blog, we have asked several prominent wine writers and natural wine supporters to contribute their words to our pages. We…
Itâs nice to abandon logic (to be an uncritic, as it were) and the habit of mind that would âmurder to dissectâ (to quote Wordsworth) wine and to go with…
 Xarel.lo to Xylotypographic Xarel-lo! â How you should greet a top class Cava. X-cess - as in âGive me excess of it, that surfeiting, /The appetite may sicken, and so…
âI had that Bertrand Russell in the back of my cab once. So I asked him, âWell, Mr Russell, whatâs it all about?â And do you know - he couldnât…
In the aftermath of any large tasting part of you wants to crunch facts and figures â publicise the nitty-gritty stats detailing how many people sailed through the doors, how…
Walker Bay - Wurzer Walker Bay â A place where fairly pedestrian South African wines originate. Wax⌠capsules were designed to annoy sommeliers Welschriesling â Or Rhyl-sling as they call…