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$10 SHIRAZ TO IMPRESS WITH AT THE TABLE

$10 SHIRAZ TO IMPRESS WITH AT THE TABLE

GREAT value with oven-baked rack oflamb or a beef & Guinness pie. Wc20Feb12 David Ellis ALTHOUGH its just $10 a bottle, Deakin Estate’s 2010 Shiraz is a wine you can easily put on the table with a meal to impress – things like oven-baked rack of lamb, or a hearty beef and Guinness pie come […]

RIPPER BLEND THAT HARKS BACK TO THE ’70s

RIPPER BLEND THAT HARKS BACK TO THE ’70s

LIKE father like son: a crackajack Jim BarryPb Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon made by son Peter. Wc23Jan12 David Ellis THE late Jim Barry often delighted in telling of his “scientific approach” to creating his first Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon blends in the 1970s – he’d make up a few with varying proportions of each wine, leave them […]

RIPPER BLEND THAT HARKS BACK TO THE ’70s

RIPPER BLEND THAT HARKS BACK TO THE ’70s

LIKE father like son: a crackajack Jim BarryPb Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon made by son Peter. Wc23Jan12 David Ellis THE late Jim Barry often delighted in telling of his “scientific approach” to creating his first Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon blends in the 1970s – he’d make up a few with varying proportions of each wine, leave them […]

10 wines, 10 vintages – Optimism got them here

10 wines, 10 vintages – Optimism got them here

Media release: For Steve and Sharlene Dadd their dream of planting a vineyard and producing their own wine seemed so far flung 14 years ago when they first bought the picturesque 200 acre property at the gateway to Mudgee, now home to Optimiste Wines. But it seems that optimism has certainly paid off, and just […]

10 wines, 10 vintages – Optimism got them here

10 wines, 10 vintages – Optimism got them here

Media release: For Steve and Sharlene Dadd their dream of planting a vineyard and producing their own wine seemed so far flung 14 years ago when they first bought the picturesque 200 acre property at the gateway to Mudgee, now home to Optimiste Wines. But it seems that optimism has certainly paid off, and just […]

Burnbrae: One of Mudgee’s Foundation Winegrowers

Burnbrae: One of Mudgee’s Foundation Winegrowers

Mudgee is one of Australia’s oldest wine growing regions. Wines have been made in this NSW region continuously since 1858. It was however during the 1960s that a renaissance took place, with the establishment of a number of family owned brands that extended the plantings. The Burnbrae site was identified in 1968 for its viticultural […]

Burnbrae: One of Mudgee’s Foundation Winegrowers

Burnbrae: One of Mudgee’s Foundation Winegrowers

Mudgee is one of Australia’s oldest wine growing regions. Wines have been made in this NSW region continuously since 1858. It was however during the 1960s that a renaissance took place, with the establishment of a number of family owned brands that extended the plantings. The Burnbrae site was identified in 1968 for its viticultural […]

ENJOY A FLING WITH THIS COOL HIGHLANDER

ENJOY A FLING WITH THIS COOL HIGHLANDER

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 […]

ENJOY A FLING WITH THIS COOL HIGHLANDER

ENJOY A FLING WITH THIS COOL HIGHLANDER

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 […]

FROM LAUNDRY TUB TO WORLD-WIDE SALES

FROM LAUNDRY TUB TO WORLD-WIDE SALES

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 […]