Wine News & Commentary

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

I like to drink a few glasses before deciding to buy a parcel of wine. Experience has taught me that a swirl, sniff and sip

You need a story to sell wines, or so they say. The early History of Australian wine is the shortest story ever written; after a

Explorer 6 went into orbit on the 7th of August 1959 and on the 14th of August beamed to base the first ‘outer space’ image