Jeffrey Grosset has long been renowned -the world over- as Australia’s greatest Riesling producer. His Riesling wines have achieved an extraordinary level of fame for a variety largely shunned by the broader, Australian commercial...
Tasmania is one of the most lightly populated, pristine, un-spoilt and beautiful food and wine regions on the planet, replete with thriving ancient forests, clean fresh air and pure, pristine waters.
Van Diemen’s Land was...
In France it is known as Pinot Gris, in Italy Pinot Grigio, in the New World wine regions, (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Americas) they opt for both names depending on their fancy.
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The first time I met winemaker Randall Grahm, we were both at the eponymous International gathering of the Masters of Wine, way back in 1997. The expectant crowd of wine industry enthusiasts was seated,...
Immanuel Kant, in his epic ‘Critique of Pure Reason’, posited that we can never truly know of a thing in itself, we may only know of a thing -that which we can obtain through...
Many colleagues today bemoan that we are losing our true winemaking artisans to a kind of oenological 'industrial revolution', where wines are made in labs, by recipe, to satisfy 'target consumers', 'market profiles' and...
We all go a little mad at this time of year, don’t we?
I’ve had enough of being wet through, caught out in yet another deluge. I’ve had enough of getting splattered with mud and...
Whilst Spanish wines have been around from about as long as wine has been consumed in Europe, (sometime between 4,000 & 3,000 BCE), Spain seems to have always had a mixed reputation for the...
