There are two sorts of wine drinkers: the insecure and the very insecure. Because most of us don’t want to make a fool of ourselves, we are less likely to question wine wisdom when it is delivered by someone we regard as an expert. If I were to dream up a piece of wine wisdom and...
Anyone who has been drinking wine for 30 years or more will remember when organic wine was a curiosity made by hippies on 10-acre lifestyle blocks that you suspected might also conceal modest cannabis plantations. Now it is de rigueur for wine companies to have at least one organ...
I follow New World’s annual wine awards with great interest. Entries are limited to wines with a retail price of $25 or less. Popular varieties must have at least 4,000 bottles for sale, and for “emerging” varieties the minimum entry requirement is 1,800 bottles. It’s a simple pr...
I find something particularly sexy about big bottles, or “large formats” as they are known in the wine trade. Perhaps I should seek counselling. Big bottles are difficult to store and clumsy to serve but beautiful to behold as they slumber away in my modest wine cellar. To dispel...