Viognier is a white grape variety that is continuing to grow in popularity in Australia. Contributing to this popularity is its versatility in food and wine matching. Viognier is a great summer wine and its pairing with seafood, especially oysters is tried and tested. Match it with fresh panfried fish or delicious summer salads. With [...]
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Cleanskins – are they still a good buy?
This is really the gossip part of the blog, where we can rave about the latest and greatest or diss whatever in the wine industry is really bugging us right now. With a topic as subjective as wine, there is always going to be plenty of contentious issues so lets talk about them. The wine [...]
Vee-on-yay or vee-on-yer … whatever takes your fancy
Viognier is still a relatively new kid on the block with many people still grappling with how to pronounce it. Just to complicate the issue further, there are two accepted pronunciations. You can try “vee – on – yay” but if that isn’t working for you, try “vee-on-yer” and you will more than likely get [...]
Great wines …. from the vineyard or winery?
Lets start with this old chestnut …. great wines are made in the vineyard, not in the winery. As a winemaker it pains me to say it, but this one is partly true. Now that I’ve agreed though, the skills of a winemaker are still required to ensure this potential is realised. The old saying [...]
Autumn … a time of change at Tallis Wine
This autumn is a great time of year to be at Tallis Wine. Not only for the changing colours of the season, but to experience the changes that have swept through our winery. Like many small businesses Tallis Wines’ humble beginnings had our small team squeezed into Richard and Alice’s home office. After several years [...]
Have your say on the Tallis Wine blog
Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand the last few years, you couldn’t help but hear the terms blog, twitter and online forums being thrown around. Cyberland has become the way we keep ourselves informed and in touch with what interests us and it’s a way of making social contact with other like-minded [...]
