Jansz Tasmania Vintage Cuvée 2010
The Tasmanian Sparkling Wine industry continues to develop and mature. There’s the 2 big players across multiple price points: Jansz and Arras. Whilst a whole host of other contenders continue […]
Tag Archives: Pinot Noir
St Marys of Penola
Sometimes, just because it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck….it’s not always a duck. In this case, St Mary’s wines are located on V&A Lane, Penola. Yep, […]
Singlefile – Re-saddling a Dark Horse
It’s that time of year. The James Halliday Wine Companion for 2016 has just been published. The Doyen of Australian wine scores (and so much more) has the ability to […]
Tilting at Windmills….Berton Vineyards Reserve Pinot Noir 2013
There’s been a fair bit of press in Hobart recently about an industry drive that has started a campaign to distinguish “100 per cent Grown, Made and Bottled in Tasmania” […]
Hidden Treasure by Toi Toi
How do you stand out from the crowd? How do you cry out so the masses hear your voice above others? How to differentiate yourself? Well, if you’re a […]
Nothing Amiss about Amisfield
Amisfield vineyard, located 45°S at the foot of Pisa Mountain Range in the Central Otago region of New Zealand. The area dominated by glacial Schist rock deposited from the amazing tectonic […]
Event (Last) Horizon : Tamar Valley
An “event horizon” “is a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. In layman’s terms, it is defined as “the point of no return”, i.e., […]
Yarrabank Vintage Sparkling
Yarrabank Sparkling is a joint product of the Champagne house of Devaux and Victoria’s Yering Station. ‘Traditional’ method, 4 years on lees, no Malolactic fermentation for the Chardonnay and sealed […]
A Truly Sparkling Road – Deviation Road
There’s some magic there in the Adelaide Hills. Hamish and Kate Laurie of Deviation Road are forging ahead with creating a legacy of benchmark Sparklings, not just for the Adelaide […]
TarraWarra Estate Reserve
The excellent established TarraWarra Estate have released their Reserve Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from vintage 2013. The vintage saw a drop in yield by more than 50% of what they normally […]
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