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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 […]
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 […]
