It’s the end of vintage and we need to make room in the barrel hall for our 2012 reds. We’re clearing all of our bin end wines, several back vintages, unlabelled current vintage wine and other cleanskins from $50 dozen. Most wines will be available for tasting and prices are applicable this weekend only. No [...]
Avoid a Christmas meltdown
Does battling the Christmas crowds with tired cranky children, shopping for the “must have” gift for your hard-to-buy-for friend only to discover it is sold out sound familiar? Stay organised this Christmas with these fantastic Christmas planning ideas. You’ll wonder how your survived Christmas without them. As your calender fills up over the silly season [...]
The big Aussie red
Australian wine writer Max Allen wrote an interesting article in the Weekend Australian Magazine July 4-5, 2009 on the influential wine critic Robert Parker Jr of the Wine Advocate publication. Parker is widely known for his penchant for the “big red”, with lashings of ripeness and oak thrown in. Over the past decade Parker embraced [...]
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 [...]
