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A Big Bouquet for Berringer Blass Recently I heard on Auswine Forum that Berringer Blass had placed a bottle of wine that had been affected...
Tax –
wine pricing and export (part 1) With the
introduction of the GST we now pay more tax on a bottle of wine
than almost any other country... More on why medals and trophies should be ignored Two unconnected
events occurred during the last 24 hours that has caused me to write this...
Wine and Food Matching – fact or fantasy? The bad
old days of white meat white wine and red meat red wine are long gone, (which is just as... One Moment In Time How relevant is one moment in time versus the
grand scheme of things? Is it fair to judge all of history from one fleeting...
Ever wondered about wine pricing Anyone noticed
that frequently when you walk into a bottle shop the prices of many of the
premium reds have...
It seems that I am not alone in my comments relating to some of the lower cost
OZ wines. By chance toady I read an article written by Tim Atkins in The Observer in the
UK... Consumers buying less wine, cheaper wine in down economy Survey taps into attitudes on wine In the current economic slowdown, consumers are buying...
Two different approaches to the same business This week Southcorp
announced the closures of some cellar door operations, including one of...
Plastic Manufactured and Manipulated
Wine We all
know that well over 90% of all wine sold is drunk within four
hours of purchase. The wine... Hi Good Peoples, I was reading in the paper where a well know and
respected wine journalist said “If Coonawarra cabernet scored a
perfect 10... How long is a piece of string Or to put it more accurately, how
long can you cellar a particular wine for with confidence? By
way of...
No doubt many of you may read wine reviews
hoping to be able to pick up a few good tips to help you in the elusive search
for that great bottle of wine... The Pick of Some Excellent Wines. I was lucky
enough to be invited to the Tuckers Seabrook Trade Exhibition Tasting this week
where I tasted... The Cost of Fame The value of the Australia dollar, or lack of it
has had some interesting consequences and effects on local wine
drinkers;... In Search of The Holy Grail There is an old song with the words “do
what you do do well boy, do what you do do well” and some Australian wine...
Wine Speculation or a Wine
Gamble? There is an increasing group of speculators who have turned their
attention to purchasing wine as an... Sometimes there are something’s you are better off not knowing. If
I told you that about one bottle in ten of the wine that you
are drinking does... The Power of the People Over the last few months I have made some
fairly strong negative comments about Southcorp in some articles and in...
One of life’s most memorable experiences During my recent trip to
SA I was lucky enough to spend a few hours at Veritas with the winemaker,... Last week I talked about the greed of some of our wine producers, this week I am going to cover some of the sheer
and utter stupidity that is... South Australian Trip Report Part Three Right, your pockets and had
a week to recover since my last recommendations, so here are some of the...
Bitch of the week I was going to present the best finds from the
Barossa this week, but that will have to wait till next week as I would like...
I was lucky enough to spend a week in South Australia doing nothing
but eating good food and tasting wine from the 12 th to the 19
th of May. During... South Australian Trip Report Part Two Prior to getting into my best
buy wine finds and recommendations, I will briefly give you an
update on... South Australian Trip Report Part One I was lucky enough to spend a
week in South Australia from the 12 th to the 19 th of May. During that...
How to Taste Wine. Part two - The taste test It's
all very well and good to be able to say "I like that wine" but
it's a lot... How to Taste Wine. Part one - The Sense of Smell.
"Tasting wine" is very different from “drinking wine.” When we "taste... Last week I depressed you with all the pitfalls of trying to buy wine that you like, this week the solutions. The key to the whole
problem is... Buying More Wines You Like. – Part One Right, so
you so enjoy a glass or five of good plonk, but how do you know what to buy.
Walk into any... Medals – do they mean the wine is good? Many of us
have been wondering thorough a bottle shop and seen a bottle of inexpensive wine festooned... William Shakespeare wrote, “ To be or not to be, that is the
question.” If he had been born in the last 50 years it may have been “To cellar
or not... Why Red Wine is getting more expensive and what we
can do about it. In the dim dark days when I was a lad just starting to drink wine,...