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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 […]
BUBBLE AND BROTH, STELLAR RISE OF MOSCATO
BUBBLY partner with spicy lemongrass,coriander and chilli-infused Asian broth Wc24Oct11 David Ellis A DECADE ago Moscato was a little-known, relatively alternative wine style in this country, but it’s enjoyed somewhat of a stellar rise since then – with Victoria’s Brown Brothers leading the charge, and now accounting for an amazing 49% of all Moscato sold […]
BUBBLE AND BROTH, STELLAR RISE OF MOSCATO
BUBBLY partner with spicy lemongrass,coriander and chilli-infused Asian broth Wc24Oct11 David Ellis A DECADE ago Moscato was a little-known, relatively alternative wine style in this country, but it’s enjoyed somewhat of a stellar rise since then – with Victoria’s Brown Brothers leading the charge, and now accounting for an amazing 49% of all Moscato sold […]
2008 Shiraz – Pick of the show – Heathcote Wine & Food Festival – October 2011
Media Release The small but highly awarded Southern Heathcote vineyard, Redesdale Estate is proud their latest release of the highly awarded estate grown Heathcote Shiraz vintages, the 2008 Shiraz, was nominated as the pick of the show, at the recent Heathcote Wine and Food Festival. Renowned wine writer and judge Jeff Gordon commended the vintage […]
Winsor’s choice: De Iuliis 2009 Steven Vineyard Shiraz
Winsor Dobbin There is no doubt that Mike de Iuliis is among the brightest young winemaking talents in the Hunter Valley. His 2011 semillon was one of the standouts of a recent Twitter tasting and this is another excellent offering made from the Hunter’s other key grape variety. Inky, with intense black pepper and wild […]
PIONEERING WINE VENTURE INSPIRED BY DROUGHT
Wc22Aug11 PERFECT match withprime rib and roast vegies. David Ellis WORLD War II Air Force rear-gunner, later wheat farmer and wool-grower, Peter Robertson was all of these things before turning his hand to wine-grape growing and planting the very first vines in NSW’s Hilltops Region. That was after a disastrous drought in 1969, and Peter […]
PURE PLEASURE: FIRST CREEK’S ORGANIC WINES
NICE one with pan-fried veal chopstopped with winter vegies. Wc25Jul11 David Ellis THE Hunter Valley’s First Creek has come up with a couple of interesting wines for those into an organic-food lifestyle: a 2010 Organic Bianco Puro (Pure White) and a 2010 Organic Rosso Puro (Pure Red.) And while production was around 4000 cases you […]
Forklift Accident Destroys $1M in Premium Wine
Source: ABC A top drop has come to grief when more than $1 million of premium wine fell from a forklift during loading in Adelaide. A McLaren Vale winemaker whose hard work went down the drain in the accident says there was only one undamaged carton out of 462. The cases of Velvet Glove premium […]
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: AN ‘AUSSIE BORDEAUX RED’
IDEAL at the table from entreesthrough to decadent desserts. Wc11Jul11 David Ellis IT’S best-known throughout Europe and the UK simply as “Bordeaux Red,” a blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc that’s sold by the millions of bottles annually because of its affinity with a huge diversity of dining ideas from the more-casual starters […]
Reserve a space for Tintilla Estate
After a month of food, wine and festivities, the Hunter Valley Wine and Food Month has come to an end and one new release which received much attention was Tintilla Estate’s iconic Hunter Valley shiraz, the… Tintilla Estate Reserve Shiraz 2007 (rrp $30) As is well known, the 2007 vintage was one of the best […]
