Barefoot Drinker
Nanny Goat Vineyards
With the weather heating back up again recently, it’s been time to start looking at those wines for the warmer months. Gone are the days of being able to pull out a bottle of big, bold Barossa red. I find that we start to drink more of the whites, rosés and pinots. Any regular reader of this column will know I’m a huge fan of Pinot Noir, it’s a wine that I drink all year round, from the light drin...
Yalumba’s Little Brothers
Back in 2009 the lads at Winefront nominated the 2007 Yalumba Scribbler Cabernet Shiraz as their #1 in the Top 100 under $20 in the 09/10 Big Red Wine Book. By the time that Gourmet Traveller Wine had decided to jump in and give the 07 Scribbler a pretty solid 94 points, I’d already bought a few bottles and put them away in the cool dark lonely spot. Last week I finally cracked the cap of a couple...
Mike Press Wines
I’m often asked what the best value wine is, and it often has me stumped. It’s the idea of value that gets me, for example I hardly ever go past $15 for an everyday wine. These are wines that may have an RRP of $24-$29, wines that are 95 points but have a real world price point of $15 -$20. I go to around $30-$50 for something that I want to put away, I can find great value in different labels at ...
Bridge Road and Bright beers
Well I’ve finally been able to look at a beer again after he huge week that was beer judging/king for a birthday week! Looked at a few interesting beers this arvo. Bridge road are easily a viable at most bottleos the wheat was good but didn’t float my boat. Think for the price point there is better out there…like Burleigh hef. Bright pale great nose that doesn’t follow onto...
Longview and gartleman
So end of school holidays means back to work! This week the samples were the offerings from Longview and gartleman. I was super excited about the gartleman after seeing their semillon perform so well with only just a few years of age on them. This 2016 is super young, light low flavours of soft green fruits, probably not as good as previous vintages right now, but for $20 it’s worth putting ...
Giant Steps Yarra Valley Range
I seem to be on a bit of Yarra roll at the moment, there must be something in the water down there as the wineries just keep knocking out great wine after great wine. Giant Steps is one of those wineries that’s always reliable, and always knocking out award winning wines. Whether it be in any of the three brands, Giant Steps, Innocent Bystander or Mea Culpa. And that’s in no small part to hard wor...
Rosé
Rosé – depending on your point of view that word will either delight you or send shivers down your spine. But gone are the days that rosé was all about sweetness. That old style mass-produced super sugary sweet excuse for a wine is largely gone. Sure there are still terrible versions of rosé out there, but there are also terrible version of everything else out there too……..like George Clooney doin...