If your travels take you to the excting Swan Valley in Perth, Riverbank is one producer you need to check out. As well as producing some smart wine, Riverbank is also home to a great restaurant where head chef Louisa Iacoppeta is given space to stretch her legs and do something really special with the [...]
Completely unintentionally, I’ve drunk a fair bit of Seppelt wine over the past week; ranging from the superb 2002 vintage of Salinger (Seppelt’s premier sparkling) on Saturday; a bottle of the powerful yet balanced 2005 Drumborg Riesling with Japanese Marie cooked for me last night; through to a bottle of the elegant, refined 2004 Shiraz [...]
Tasmania and its inhabitants are often the butts of many cruel jokes from us mainlanders – but when it comes to wine, Tasmania makes some seriously good stuff, particularly when you’re talking about the cool climate varieties. On the nose, this wine has a refreshing, lively lift with traces of citrus; a lot less yeastiness [...]
A sparkling wine consisting solely of chardonnay (blanc is French for white, hence the name), this wine’s flavour profile is unabashedly chardonnay with lovely lemon, pear and apple flavours beautifully balanced by a smattering of gentle, fizzy acidity. Punctuated by a lovely, persistent finish, this is summer fun measured in exact 750ml doses. www.domainechandon.com.au