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Penfolds Bin Range: “POOR MAN’S GRANGE” IS A REAL TREAT
Wc08Mar10david ellis FOR true believers, March 1 is a day that is looked forward to each year with an anticipation that goes well beyond the norm. Because it’s the day that Penfolds release their Bin range of wines, a collection of just a half-dozen or so labels that for a half century now have rewarded […]
CLASSIC MCWILLIAM’S FOR CLASSIC OCCASIONS
Wc08Feb10 david ellis McWILLIAM’S have released their 2005 flagship 1877 Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz, a classic wine for that classic very special occasion or celebration. Labelled 1877 after the year that Samuel McWilliam planted his first vines at Corowa in the NSW Murray Basin, this latest release has been created from premium fruit from some of […]
FORLORN IMBIBER REJOICES AT SEEING THE LIGHT
Wc18Jan10 david ellis A mate who ended 2009 somewhat forlornly after being told by his doctor to reduce by a third his propensity for a bottle of red or white with dinner every night, has now begun the new year with surprising enthusiasm. Its because he’s found that rather than having to have a couple […]
NEW YORK TO GUNDAGAI – JIM’S APPLES
Wc21Sep09 david ellis WE’ve long subscribed to the view that the Australian wine industry is made up of some of the world’s more interesting characters who display a diversity of interests, pastimes and lifestyles not found in the Old World – where wine-making is more-largely simply handed down from father to son or daughter. Jim […]
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 […]
PRIMO’S LA BIONDINA A FUN LITTLE BLONDE
Wc29Jun09 A ZINGY white to enjoy year-round with fish and seafoods is Primo Estate’s La Biondina, a 100 per cent fun-blonde Colombard from South Australia’s Adelaide Plains. First created by Joe and Dina Grilli a near-ten decades ago, this zesty drop was blended for several more-recent vintages with Sauvignon Blanc, but for the 2009 makers […]
BUYERS BENEFIT FROM MAKERS’ TOUGH TIMES
Wc22Jun09 david ellis AUSTRALIAN winemakers – particularly those who rely heavily on export orders – have become as much caught up in the world’s current economic turmoil as any other industry, and while most consumers will empathise with them there are many who equally are rubbing their hands at the bargains that are currently to […]
HUNTER VALLEY SEMILLON, UNIQUE IN THE WORLD
Wc15Jun09 david ellis IF ever there was a white wine that you could say Mother Nature designed to gracefully transform itself from a moth to a butterfly over a few years slumbering in the cellar, it is Hunter Valley Semillon. McWilliams have for years been masters at this art, withholding their Mount Pleasant wines for […]
MOUNT EYRE – JUST WHAT THE DOCTORS ORDERED
david ellis ALTHOUGH Doctor Aniello Iannuzzi and Dr Eve Tsironis only ventured into winemaking in the Hunter Valley in 1999, their appreciation for the juice of the grape is rooted back years in two of the Mediterranean’s most passionate winemaking regions. For centuries Aniello’s family tilled vines and made wine in the famed Campania region […]
