On the Grapevine
Well, I don’t know about you, but I do like a change from time to time. One of the great delights of wine is that you can explore the byways…
A few weeks ago, to the merry accompaniment of barking dogs, a friend arrived clutching a bottle of Mill Stone Cabernet Sauvignon, which he’d just picked up at Foodland. From…
There’s a picture of an Eagle Hawk on every bottle of Wolf Blass wine. The bird is more correctly known as a Wedge-Tailed Eagle and is the largest bird of…
Well, would you? That old cliché about drinking “red wine with meat and white wine with fish” seems to have been around since Moses was a boy. There was a…
During a conversation a few days ago, someone was wondering about the meaning of a “varietal” wine. Just in case you are a bit hazy about it, let me explain.…
I have to admit that when I first taste wine from a bag-in-a-box, I do so with some trepidation. A few months ago, I had the misfortune to taste two…
A wine company with the name “Mau” would probably induce much merriment among Thai people. As almost everyone knows around here, in Thai the word means “drunk”, provided you pronounce…
If there’s one wine in the world that is under-appreciated outside its home country, it is Sherry. For a long time in Britain, Sherry was always regarded as the preserve…
Now I’ve always had a soft spot for the red wines of Bergerac. In case you’ve forgotten (or perhaps never knew) it lies in the lovely Dordogne area, which is…
I do enjoy a good sparkling wine from time to time but I prefer to drink something without having to first sell the cat. So that counts out Champagne, because…
Over three hundred and fifty years ago, the first wine grapes were harvested in South Africa. They grew not very far from where modern day Cape Town now stands. The…
They’ve been making wine in Chile since Shakespeare was a boy. European vines were brought to the country by the Spanish conquistadors and missionaries in the 16th century, although the…
If you’re a regular visitor to the local supermarkets, you may have noticed an increasing number of boxed wines or “wine casks”, as the Australians prefer to call them. Unfortunately,…
Rosé wines can be made from several different grape varieties, but rosé made from Syrah grapes can often be the lightest, fruitiest and freshest. It’s odd really when you think…
Languedoc-Roussillon is about as far south you can go in France without finding yourself wading in the Mediterranean. The region covers a massive area which begins at the banks of…
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