Wednesday’s dinner at Mt Lawley dining institute Jackson’s provided some of the city’s wine writers with an opportunity to taste some of the latest Rosemount releases and chat with chief winemaker Matthew Koch. For many of us, it was our first encounter with the new look diamond-based Rosemount-bottles. While the contents of a bottle of [...]
Here’s more extreme fishiness on my part during some 50c/$1NLHE action on Sunpoker – I’m the evil Sith Lord of suckouts, Darth Suck-ius. I’ll include annotations on my thought processes through out the hand. Game #3820956684: Hold’em NL ($0.50/$1) – 2006/10/30 – 10:37:58 (ET) Table “Villavicencio” Seat 5 is the button. Seat 1: Galthran ($96 [...]
Named after a disease that slowly reduces one of a vine’s “arms” to wood (thus rendering into the other shiraz grapes into mega-concentrated superhero berries of sorts), the Dead Arm Shiraz is d’Arenberg’s flagship red wine, and with good reason: typically powerful, intense, thick and multi-dimensional, the Dead Arm represents all that McLaren Vale shiraz [...]
It’s been a hectic week with plenty going on winewise and, God willing, I’ll be able to update the site with all the tasting notes from the past couple of weeks including our trip to McLaren Vale. Last night. Marie and I took some good friends of ours to our favourite Japanese restaurant in Perth, [...]
A bit of a secret among locals, the Swan Valley’s Upper Reach is a family-owned boutique winery that has built its reputation upon some outstanding shiraz and chardonnay releases. In the past, big fruit has been a hallmark of this wine both on the nose and in the mouth, but the ’05 features a softer, [...]
I’ve been to some interesting 20th birthday celebrations in my time but few can hold a candle to the soiree put on by Howard Park. Ever the innovators, Howard Park owners Jeff and Amy Burch celebrated their world-famous winery in fine fashion, hosting a riesling tasting to celebrate the grape that helped put them on [...]
It’s amazing what a bit of cold will do to a chardonnay. Serve a chardy too cold and it’ll smell all minerally and lean and pretty shy but once it’s had time to warm up a little, you’ll really get a good look at the wine’s true character. After starting off shy and lean, a [...]