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BRANDY DISTILLERY’S SPARKLING SUCCESS
Wc7July08 YOUR FREE WEEKLY WINE COLUMN for week beginning July 7 2008 wine with david ellis YOU could probably say it had to happen: a wine company that was founded in western Victoria in 1963 by two of France’s most famous Champagne houses – Krug and Charles Heidsieck – with the intention of making brandy, […]
BLACKJACK GAMBLE PROVES A WINNER
Wc9Jun08 YOUR WEEKLY WINE COLUMN for week beginning 9 June 2008 wine with david ellis TWENTY years ago when new-comer grape-growers and winemakers, pharmacist Ian McKenzie and schoolteacher Ken Pollock came to deciding just what wines would flow from their new BlackJack Vineyards in Central Victoria’s Harcourt Valley, the one they pondered over the most […]
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 […]
PIROMIT’S A DRIVE-AWAY SUCCESS
THERE was a time, thirty-odd years ago, when the folk of Griffith in the NSW Riverina would take themselves to their Hanwood drive-in theatre, and ’tween catching snatches of whatever was on the screen, quaff the wine hits of the day – things like Ben Ean Moselle, Porphry Pearl and Mateus Rose. Today those classics […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant Philip Shiraz
ONE FOR LUNCH: IT’S over forty years since wine buffs experienced their first encounter with McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant Philip Shiraz, and in all those years they’ve certainly lost none of their enthusiasm for this great wine. Sourced from several Hunter Valley vineyards, it rewards with wonderfully sweet and soft red current fruit flavours, and classic […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: 2005 Tulloch Moor Shiraz
ONE FOR LUNCH: CLARE Valley winemaker, Kirrihill has decided on a change in making- and marketing-direction: rather than drawing on fruit from a range of South Australian regions, in future it will concentrate on single vineyard wines solely from the cool-climate Clare and the Adelaide Hills. Former UK wine marketer, Matt McCulloch has been brought […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: Tamblyn Cabernet, Shiraz, Malbec and Merlot
ONE FOR LUNCH: ANOTHER South Australian maker, Bremerton in cool climate Langhorne Creek, has come up with one of its best-ever Tamblyn label reds, a carefully crafted blend by Winemaker Rebecca Willson of Cabernet, Shiraz, Malbec and Merlot that’s she’s brought together in a soft, mouth-filling wine loaded with dark-fruit flavours and soft tannins. Rebecca […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: Deakin Estate 2005 Shiraz
ONE FOR LUNCH: PIE-eaters rejoice: Deakin Estate’s released a 2005 Shiraz that’s a superb red for next time you put a gourmet beef pie on the table – and better still, it costs just $10. Fruit from the company’s vineyard at Red Cliffs in North West Victoria gives this wine a rich palate of dark […]
WORTH HOCKING THE FARM FOR
IT’S a brave man who decides to hock the successful 90-year old family farm and put the money into buying 70ha of virgin land to grow grapes and dream of hopefully launching his own premium quality wine label. But Murray Burton, a West Australian south coast farmer did just that in 1996, and after mortgaging […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: 2005 Pepperjack Shiraz Viognier
One For Lunch: A nicely balanced blend of Shiraz and Viognier from the Barossa and Eden Valleys can be found in the 2005 Pepperjack Shiraz Viognier that with its rich, ripe and plentiful fruit characters makes a good partner with game dishes or Chinese five spice quail. Certainly worth the $22.99 asking price for enjoyment […]
