Bless the Oxford Landing team! They work so hard at growing grapes and making wine so you can snaffle this mind-blowing, zesty grapefruit and lemon blossom thing at Dan Murphy’s for $6! Don’t be caught dead or alive with anything else at this miserly price.
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Salmon-pink is the new white but don’t you dare let anything into your glass that resembles a Barbie outfit! Pale, bone dry rosé is the epitome of cool right now and this sophisticated, textural thing blows every other rosé at this price straight back into the toy box. Pour yourself a big glass of R&R.
readWine Taste takes care of your weekly sweet wine fix! This half bot is filled with a concentrated concoction of peach, lemon, honey and glacé fig. There’s no need to fret, the cool Heggies vineyard injects spades of acid, the crucial ingredient to keep sweet wines under control.
readLook at that price, check out the score, ponder the drinking window and marvel! Introducing one of the finest vintages ever of Australia’s bargain cult red wine sensation. This cool, high, Adelaide Hills single vineyard makes cabernet that’s calm and dignified. It’s the epitome of exact.
readAhhh Bolly! With unrivalled complexity and richness, this is a triumph of barrel-fermented champagne. If James Bond’s fave bubbles have never been your style, it’s time for a retaste because things are changing fast at this legendary house. Bolly has been spotted under half price recently, so keep your eyes peeled. 1st Choice has a […]
readA call to winemakers to join me in support of East Africa famine crisis victims through a donation for every case of wine sold in end of year newsletters and cellar door Christmas offers.
readIn its fourth year, The Great New Zealand Pinot Noir Classification highlights New Zealand’s finest 100 Pinot Noir producers and the first ever promotion to five stars!
readAustralian wine got egg on its face this week because our wine law permits a dishonourable practice. It’s time this loophole was closed.
readA call from The Australian National Council on Drugs to ban alcohol at school fundraising activities is naïve and has the potential to exacerbate the massive and growing problem of underage alcohol abuse in Australia.
readIn spite of the challenges facing many Australian wineries, the moment word of the Queensland floods hit the news wire, I was inundated by offers of help from the wine trade all over Australia, New Zealand and the world.
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