Wine News & Commentary

Does it matter who makes the wine? Should we care? Thoughts like these play no part in assessing wine in a row of glasses where […]

We have just sold our last two bottles of the Langdorf Kaldukee Barossa Valley Frontignac 2015. I tasted this wine in 2016 and rang the

This is a reply to an email titled, ‘To whom it may concern’. Charles Darwin would surely approve of the progress made since his death

The clues used to buy a wine include some of the following. Have you had it before, the price, the country of origin, is the

Late at night after the guest’s had left is when I did my greatest work. The dregs in the bottles worth princely sums were not

Compulsory confinement has turned me back to some re-reading of old favourites and this delight today as Evelyn Waugh had me revisit Charles Ryder and

I recall, in the 1980s a group of Sydney based P.R., advertising-marketing types, and the few journalists that wrote about wine formed a group for

Let’s talk wine tasting. Are you aware there are two types of wine experts, and they seldom have identical opinions? Winemakers are the technical types

Back in my days as an exploration geologist the most valuable tool, the gold standard, was a Brunton compass. With the Brunton and a map

For decades I have watched how those promoting and selling wine in Australia have grouped over subjective issues as diverse as taste, winery size and