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BOTTLING OUR BEST WITH SCREWCAPS
Wc14Sep09 david ellis IT doesn’t seem that long ago that Australian winemakers started putting the majority of their wines under screwcaps in place of cork, as they sought to eradicate cork taint and preserve wine freshness in the bottle. But while the year 2000 is generally considered the “beginning” of the trend, experiments in fact […]
THE TOPS FROM CANBERRA AND HILLTOPS
MORE-ish with seafood any time Wc20Jul09 david ellis THERE’S nothing new about making wine in the Canberra Region – they’ve been doing it for 180 years. What is new – in the sense of the last ten or twelve years – is the exquisite quality today of some of those wines: owners of over 140 […]
A SHIRAZ WE’LL TALK ABOUT FOR YEARS TO COME
Wc13Jul09 david ellis THERE are some vintages that can be rated as no better than just another vintage, there are others that can be rated as better than other vintages, and there are vintages that can simply be rated as greater than other vintages. And then there are vintages – few of them, mind you […]
BY GEORGE, HERE’S A COOL RIESLING FOOD IDEA
Wc06Jul09 david ellis IF you enjoy white fish and a good white wine to go with it, you’ll not do better than to pan-fry some South Australian King George Whiting fillets and serve them up with a nicely chilled Riesling – its one of the great food/wine matches of all-time. And one quite excellent drop […]
RIESLING’S ZESTY REBUFF TO HEAT AND DROUGHT
Wc2March09 david ellis YOU’d be hard-pressed – to excuse the pun – to find a Riesling at $20 that’s better value than Koonowla’s 2008 from South Australia’s Clare Valley. And interestingly it came not from a perfect vintage, but one hammered by heat and drought until a welcome last-minute drop in temperature just as the […]
WHITE AGE REALLY IS IMPORTANT
Wc05May08 YOUR WEEKLY WINE COLUMN for week beginning 5 May 2008 wine with david ellis WHAT do you do when you’ve a great winemaking team with all the skills to go that one step forward, you’ve access to the very best of fruit, but you don’t have a label that you think a resultant wine […]
A GRAND WINE FOR SEAFOOD LOVERS
Wc3Mar08 YOUR WEEKLY WINE COLUMN for week beginning 3 March 08 wine with david ellis TIM Adams has done it again with his 2007 Clare Valley Riesling, crafting once more a wine that to our palate is a seafood-lover’s delight. Tim used only the very best 500 litres per tonne of grapes from a near-dozen […]
PUT A PARTY IN YOUR MOUTH
A bit of tweaking of acid levels in the just-released 2007 Jim Barry Watervale Riesling has rewarded the company – and consumers – with a superb wine that’s got considerably fresher and more pronounced fruit flavours on the palate than many of its predecessors. Jim Barry Wines has been a leader with this variety in […]
