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WINE OF THE WEEK: Saltram’s Mamre Brook 2005 Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon
ONE FOR LUNCH: A mate with a passion for cooking, sweated through a recent weekend creating a Duck Confit he served with caramelised root vegies and a quince paste jus for a half dozen colleagues, and poured a wine you’d think was created with his Dinner Party in mind – Saltram’s Mamre Brook 2005 Barossa […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: Saltram’s Mamre Brook 2005 Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon
ONE FOR LUNCH: A mate with a passion for cooking, sweated through a recent weekend creating a Duck Confit he served with caramelised root vegies and a quince paste jus for a half dozen colleagues, and poured a wine you’d think was created with his Dinner Party in mind – Saltram’s Mamre Brook 2005 Barossa […]
HORROR HARVEST’S BENCHMARK WINE
TIM Smith must have wondered if he’d crossed a black cat enroute to his first vintage as Chief Winemaker at Chateau Tanunda in South Australia’s Barossa Valley. After a highly-respected career with Yalumba, St Hallett and Tatachilla, and stints wine-making in Portugal and France, Tim arrived at Tanunda earlier this year to anything but what […]
HORROR HARVEST’S BENCHMARK WINE
TIM Smith must have wondered if he’d crossed a black cat enroute to his first vintage as Chief Winemaker at Chateau Tanunda in South Australia’s Barossa Valley. After a highly-respected career with Yalumba, St Hallett and Tatachilla, and stints wine-making in Portugal and France, Tim arrived at Tanunda earlier this year to anything but what […]
NEVER TOO MANY COOKS HERE
FOR WEEK BEGINNING 19 NOVEMBER 2007; NEVER TOO MANY COOKS HERE David Ellis In the beginning, so legend tells us, there was Avaiki, the idyllicheaven from whence the first adventurers set forth to inhabit theislands that were to become the South Pacific. And, say those same legends, in the case of the Cook Islands thesevoyagers […]
INDIA WITH YOUR OWN CAR and GUIDE
YOUR WEEKLY “TRAVELLERS GOOD BUYS” Week beginning 19 November 2007 travellers good buys: with david ellis INDIA WITH YOUR OWN CAR & GUIDE AN 11-night tour of India With A Difference includes travel inprivate vehicles with a dedicated guide, a stay in the luxury AmarVillas while visiting the Taj Mahal, another at the 5-star ImperialHotel […]
INDIA WITH YOUR OWN CAR and GUIDE
YOUR WEEKLY “TRAVELLERS GOOD BUYS” Week beginning 19 November 2007 travellers good buys: with david ellis INDIA WITH YOUR OWN CAR & GUIDE AN 11-night tour of India With A Difference includes travel inprivate vehicles with a dedicated guide, a stay in the luxury AmarVillas while visiting the Taj Mahal, another at the 5-star ImperialHotel […]
NEVER TOO MANY COOKS HERE
COLOURFUL markets entice the visitor to theCook Islands to part with a few spare dollars. David Ellis In the beginning, so legend tells us, there was Avaiki, the idyllic heaven from whence the first adventurers set forth to inhabit the islands that were to become the South Pacific. And, say those same legends, in the […]
NEVER TOO MANY COOKS HERE
COLOURFUL markets entice the visitor to theCook Islands to part with a few spare dollars. David Ellis In the beginning, so legend tells us, there was Avaiki, the idyllic heaven from whence the first adventurers set forth to inhabit the islands that were to become the South Pacific. And, say those same legends, in the […]
Sir George Hubert Wilkins
by John Grierson from ‘HEROES OF THE POLAR SKIES’‘ Heinemann 1967 George Hubert Wilkins was in many ways the most colourful of all polar air pioneers, due to the astonishing variety of enterprises in which he took a leading part. Born at Mount Bryan East, about a hundred miles north of Adelaide on October 31st, […]
