I suspect that in the context of a line-up of chardonnays, a lot of people are going to glance over this wine, which is a shame really, but probably indicative of the discrimination elegant, restrained whites like this have to face each day. To me, this wine conjures up images of a singer busking acappella [...]
Regular readers of the blog may have noticed a lull in the poker content and more of a wine focus. Without going all emo on everyone, I’d taken a hiatus from poker and am only now starting to get back in to it. During my leave of absence however, I still maintained a casual interest [...]
Technically, the early ’07 vintage wasn’t supposed to be a great one for riesling, but so far the evidence has been to the contrary, as evidenced by this release from the Great Southern’s oldest winery and newly-appointed winemaker John Durham’s willingness to let work in the vineyard rather than the winery shine brightest in his [...]
On Thursday, Pio Boffa from historic Piemonte estate Pio Cesare was in town showing off some of his exceptional wine at Italian eating institute, Maurizio’s. Just a little on the name: “fides” means faith and trust in Latin and was chosen by the Pio family to reflect the act of faith and trust made when [...]
Under the guidance of new senior winemaker Robb Mann, the Cape Mentelle SBS style is changing from a semillon-dominant blend to a more 50-50 mix with sauvignon blanc just outweighing the semillon in this year’s blend (53 per cent versus 47 per cent for the number crunchers). Attractive fresh, lifted citrus notes on the nose [...]
There are three things I really love about the Amon-Ra: first, the name is cool, but that’s to be expected if you name a wine after Egyptian mythology’s King of Gods, and second, the artwork on the label – the all-seeing eye of Horus – is just so bold and iconic (if only the wine [...]
For the rest of the week, I’ll be taking Polaroids of the wines I’ll be writing up. In addition to wine and cards, photography is another interest of mine with instant photography being responsible for a good chunk of my debt. If you’re wondering why the funny borders – you might remember the classic white [...]