decanted

If the founder of the Coonawarra wine region, John Riddoch, is up there in the big vineyard in the sky looking down at his legacy, he is sure to be mightily pleased at its present rude health. For the 2004 vintage in Coonawarra, the current vintage for the majority of the region’s wines, is arguably […]

Each year as we, the business, anticipate the release of the Chardonnay from our Mornington Peninsula producer, we set about buying the wines from other respected wineries in the region.
In opening and comparing the wines of our competitiors (usually referred to as “benchmarking”) we have a better idea of what we’re up against in a […]

If you read my post, “An opportunity to reminisce” a couple of weeks back, you may remember my nostalgic ramblings about an afternoon spent at the Cellier Le Brun winery, near Blenheim, in the Marlborough region of New Zealand.  If you were particularly enthralled with the post, you may also recall my disdain for Marlborough […]

In 1992, Penfolds Winemakers were sent forth to create a white wine designed to command the respect (and price) of its healthy stable of premium reds. With the most notable being Grange, it is little wonder this wine , set to be named “Yattarna” (Aboriginal meaning “little by little, gradual”), was universally christened the […]

Even amidst the current hysteria of pop-media hyperbole, the word “iconic” must be one of the most trite of adjectives in common usage. In any decent dictionary it is defined as an image or representation, particularly referring to sacred personage such as J. Christ. That doesn’t stop scribes describing Sydney Harbour Bridge, ugg Boots, […]