Old Bastard Sommeliers : Mark Davidson
In a relatively new spin-off from our extremely popular Young Blood Sommeliers series, we are...
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Tag: Wine Australia
Fancy Shiraz at the Aussie Show
Malcolm Jolley checks out the Australian wine show… The sommelier turned educator Mark...
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Overtaken by Events
One of the regular services the wine writer Dean Tudor provides for the readers of his blog Gothic...
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Ms. Australia
Angela Slade is a busy woman. As Regional Director of Wine Australia for all of North America she...
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Oz Immersion
by Wine Australia Just the other week, early on a bitterly cold morning, an invited group of...
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Australia Day
by Wine Australia This two night dinner series is being put together with Wine Australia and...
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Jamie D in Australia Part 8: Margaret River
GFR presents the eighth of a series of videos by Jamie Drummond as he travels across Australia tasting good food and wine. Part 8: Jamie heads to the very west end of the continent to the Margaret River region, where he finds more than kangaroos in and amongst the vines!
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Jamie D in Australia Part 7: The Barossa Valley
GFR presents the seventh of a series of videos by Jamie Drummond as he travels across Australia tasting good food and wine. Part 7: Jamie heads to Shiraz country: The Barossa Valley. He finds impassioned winemakers eager to talk about their sense of terroir in the video below.
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Jamie D in Australia Part 6: McLaren Vale Overview
GFR presents the sixth of a series of videos by Jamie Drummond, as he travels across Australia tasting good food and wine. Part 6: Jamie heads to the famous McLaren Vale, where his preconceptions about Autralian wine are changed for good.
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Australian Harvest Retrospective.
By: Nicole Campbell Ah week 3 of wine harvest. How young and naïve I was back then. This is...
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Jamie D in Australia Part 5: Mornington Peninsula Overview
GFR presents the fifth of a series of videos by Jamie Drummond, as he travels across Australia tasting good food and wine. Part 5: Jamie heads southeast of Melbourne to the Mornington Peninsula where small scale, craft winemakers are making cool climate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
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Try This Wine: 2009 Shingleback Haycutters
Surely if we start drinking patio wines now, then the sun will cooperate and dry-out our soggy province. One such warm evening, aperitif sipper that’s under $20 and part of the massive Australian promotion at the LCBO this month: Shingleback’s 2009 Haycutters Sauvignon Blanc Semillon.
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