Wc28Nov11 David Ellis COOL idea with seafood, a herbedpork casserole or Japanese dishes. NSW’s Southern Highland Wines has released a crackajack 2011 Oldbury Reserve Sauvignon Blanc that’s very much in the style of its 2009 – the most-awarded wine in the company’s young eight-year winemaking history. Located in picturesque high-altitude and cool-climate country outside the […]
GREAT buying at $10.95 to enjoywith seafoods or Asian stir fries. Wc31Oct11 David Ellis WHEN one of the NSW Riverina’s early pioneers Francesco Calabria, who’d arrived from Italy in 1927 with wife Elizabeth, decided he needed a glass or three of good home-made red or white to ease the pains of a day on the […]
GREAT buying at $10.95 to enjoywith seafoods or Asian stir fries. Wc31Oct11 David Ellis WHEN one of the NSW Riverina’s early pioneers Francesco Calabria, who’d arrived from Italy in 1927 with wife Elizabeth, decided he needed a glass or three of good home-made red or white to ease the pains of a day on the […]
SEAFOODS and poultry go particularlywell with this Sauvignon Blanc. Wc17Oct11 David Ellis THE 2011 vintage in South-eastern Australia can best be summed up in three words, wet, wet, wet, with some vineyards totally inundated by flood waters, areas reporting rains of six or eight times their normal for summer – and still others drenched with […]
Media Release Award-winning Kiwi winery Mud House continues to trump the competition overseas, with the 2011 Mud House Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc winning prestigious accolades at the 2011 International Wine and Spirits Competition (IWSC). Scooping both a Gold medal and Best in Class at the IWSC, the 2011 Mud House Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc was a standout […]
TASTES good, looks good andimmediately drinkable. Wc19Sep11 David Ellis WINEMAKER Scott Comyns at the Hunter Valley’s Tempus Two has created an interesting 2011 Sauvignon Blanc under the company’s Copper Series label, a wine that’s true-blue Aussie yet has suggestions of French Fumé Blanc about it. And by bottling the wine under an eye-catching copper label, […]
Media Release Petaluma’s Bridgewater Mill ~ a heritage listed stone flour mill on the banks of the Cox Creek ~ has long been a popular destination in the Adelaide Hills, but an exciting young chef, Zac Ronayne is attracting a whole new audience to the cellar door and restaurant. The 30 year old has made […]
GOOD drop with artichokeor sun-dried tomato dips. Wc15Aug11 David Ellis IT’S not often that a winemaker can say that from a vintage that most described as “challenging and trying,” they were delivered some of the best white fruit they’ve ever had to work with. But that’s what Rymill Coonawarra’s Sandrine Gimon had to say of […]
BEAUTIFULLY refreshing, generous and racy– match it with seafoods. Wc21Mar11 David Ellis IT’s ninety years since the legendary Maurice O’Shea established what is now McWilliams’ Mount Pleasant label, and not only was he an innovative winemaker, he had some innovative marketing ideas for the time as well. One of these was to names wines after […]
Media Release Award-winning Kiwi winery Mud House has continued its golden run on the international stage, scoring Wine of the Year for its 2010 Sauvignon Blanc at Finland’s Wine of the Year Competition 2011. Now in its 14th year, Finland\’s Wine of the Year Competition judges 470 different wines across 19 categories. Mud House was […]