Sorry Sydney, Most People Don't Care About Food-Wine Pairing

Posted November 18, 2011

In his first article for our friends at Palate Press, Blake Gray seems to have hit a raw nerve and ruffled some feathers with the Australian audience. I'll let him tell the story...   I felt like Snidely Whiplash on Monday: an international villain. I woke up in Brazil to discover I was being...

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Posted October 15, 2011

English Bubbles - Making Sparkling Wine in the UK

Posted September 20, 2011

Toby Walne reports in ThisIsMoney today that the growing demand for English "bubbly" has resulted in UK wine production almost doubling in the past year to four million bottles, with more small wineries getting in on the act.   Retired solicitor and farmer Charles Humphreys, 73, owns Hazel En...

Well Hung Bunches

Posted August 12, 2011

I couldn't resist this story in the NZ Herald today, which reports that "harvesting wine grapes as late as possible can add to the sexiness of the vintage".   Well hung is not a term you may think immediately applicable to wine, but on a recent foray into some local vineyards, these words wer...

Australian Wineries Supporting Japanese Earthquake Victims

Posted May 3, 2011

The Australian wine community is on a mission to generate thousands of dollars for victims of the earthquake and tsunami which devastated Japan several weeks ago. Wine Australia has come up with a fundraising campaign after taking inspiration from renowned wine writer Tyson Stelzer, who raised ...