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PETER’S PASSION FOR THE AUSSIE PRODUCT
Wc16Sep13 David Ellis PETER Logan is a passionate Aussie, and the more-so when it comes to the product of our own home-grown wineries, because as he says, “with some of the most interesting, excellent value, and even quirkiest wines around, why go looking abroad for something to stand out from the crowd?” His own Logan […]
Celebrate the Hunter Valley’s Spoils in One Spot at the Region’s Newest Wine Festival
Experience the best the Hunter Valley has to offer in one day and in one place, at Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley, for the inaugural Hunter Valley Wine Festival on October 12, 2013. The event will bring together more than 30 local wineries and producers for a day of tastings, gourmet food and entertainment, surrounded by […]
MARGARET RIVER BLEND REALLY REWARDS
REWARDING blend with pennepasta and a meaty tomato sauce. Wc12Aug13 David Ellis FORESTER Estate in Western Australia’s Margaret River has released a very delightful 2011 Cabernet Merlot that’s 48% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot and with a 6% splash of Malbec and slightly lower 5% Petit Verdot. Fruit was sourced from several neighbouring properties in the […]
A GREAT CHANCE TO INVEST IN THE FUTURE
GRAB the opportunity to buy now– or you’ll need to wait until 2016. Wc08Jul13 David Ellis WE had the opportunity a few weeks ago to taste a wine that Hunter Valley maker, Andrew Margan has no intention of releasing until 2016 – his 2011 Margan Limited Release White Label Shiraz, that we can tell you […]
Meerea Park moves its top-selling Hunter Valley wines to exciting new cellar door location
Media Release One of the Hunter Valley’s most awarded boutique wineries, family-owned Meerea Park, will open its new cellar door in July in one of the Hunter’s most visible locations;, the corner of Broke and McDonalds Roads. Owners of Meerea Park, winemaker Rhys Eather and his brother Garth, have been crafting fine Hunter Valley wines […]
PINOT GRIGIO, OUR GREENER SHADES OF GREY
27 May 2013 SERVE well-chilled with mixed friedseafoods, or a Thai beef salad. David Ellis THE French have been making pinot gris for yonks, with references to it going back as far as the 14th century, while later it found its way to Italy where its grown and labelled as pinot grigio and is now […]
COMPANY’S GOT HISTORY ALL BOTTLED UP
CHEW over history with this and acold-weather’s lamb, pork or veal casserole. Wc20May13 David Ellis RIDDOCH Coonawarra’s a company one could easily write a fascinating book or three about, beginning with Scottish-born pioneer John Riddoch who rode the wool boom of the 1860s, and 30 years later planted Coonawarra’s first wine grapes in 1891. Along […]
MAKER’S UNUSUAL WISH A FORLORN HOPE
Wc13May13 HISTORIC edge to atruly excellent food wine. David Ellis HUNTER Valley maker Andrew Margan has an unusual wish for his 2011 White Label Barbera – “I hope no one likes it,” he confides, and then adds a little cheekily, “so I can drink it all myself.” Sadly for him, but happily for wine lovers, […]
NEIL’S WINE MADE WITH THE GIRLS IN MIND
MADE for the girls – if they cankeep the blokes away from it. Wc29Apr13 David Ellis THE Hunter Valley’s McGuigan Wines has released an interesting Shiraz that’s actually made from fruit from South Australia’s Langhorne Creek – and which has a touch of Viognier in it to give a softer mouth-feel than a straight full-bodied […]
HUNTER VALLEY’S COOL NEW NEXT GENERATION
Wc15Apr13 David Ellis HUNTER Valley’s Next Generation winemakers ham it up: (l to r)David Hook, Andrew Thomas, Rhys Eather, Nick Paterson, Mike De Iuliis, Andrew Margan. A HALF-DOZEN Hunter Valley winemakers who dub themselves the Next Generation are going on the road in May to promote their wines at a series of Pop […]
