NSW WINE WEEK
Local wines are often overlooked in favour of produce from other states. NSW Wine Week 2008 aims to change that… SMH 4 March 2008 What’s On: Good Living Sydney Cellar Door. 103 wineries from 14 regions...
View ArticleBiodynamic Wine
From the SMH 22/4/08 … “Cape Jaffa, the South Australian winery and vineyard, has joined the growing list of Australian wine producers using biodynamic practices in the vineyards. The entire vineyard...
View ArticleBuild Your Own Home Wine Cellar
Your wine bloggers have been in the US for several weeks with a few opportunities to taste wine – especially pinot noir – in the Santa Barbara area and also the Russian River region of California. More...
View ArticleHow To Drink Wine For Free
In this article from Examiner.com Gerald McConway discusses how you just might be able to drink wine for free with your own home wine cellar … “If you are looking for an excuse to build a wine cellar,...
View ArticleNo More Sherry In Australia
Would you buy a bottle of wine called apera or topaque? This is the question that is posed in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald on 27/1/09. “These are the new names for Australian-made sherry and...
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Building A Wine Cellar
We had always planned to build a wine cellar in the basement of our house to store our growing wine collection and a year or so ago it was finally completed. I may not have provided the link to the...
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Heartland Directors’ Cut Shiraz, 2006
The 2006 Heartland Directors’ Cut Shiraz is the wine of the week in today’s SMH. Huon Hooke writes: This is the flagship red of Ben Glaetzer’s Heartland range – a blend of Langhorne Creek and Limestone...
View ArticleWorld Wine Consumption Dropping
According to this article from ABCNews Australian & American wine consumption is holding up well but French and Italian Wine consumption is down as a result of the sad state of the economy … Shun...
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A Use For Old Wine Bottles
If you enjoy wine you probably have a lot of empty wine bottles to get rid of. I know we do. We have a very good recycling service in our area so our wine consumption is not adding to the landfill but...
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Vines And Their Wines – Old Takes On New
The headline comes from a dinner we had recently for my birthday; a quiet affair where we had just a couple of wine loving friends to join us and a chance to select some wine cellar specials. Although...
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