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Huntington Estate 2013 Red release
Sometimes it’s very hard for me to work out how wineries make money, especially the ones that decided to make excellent wines, but hold them back for aging. Not just for special or cellar aged releases, like a lot of wineries do, but they age their wines as their standard practice. Tucked away in Mudgee, north-west of Sydney and over the Great Dividing Range, lies Huntington Estate, a winery that ...
McWilliams Fortifieds.
This time of the year shows everything that’s great about living in North Queensland, 30ish degree days, clear skies and lower humidity. It does bring with it our cooler nights, well cooler for us anyway. One of the best things about that cool change is the ability to sit back at night with a glass of fortified, sitting back late at night with a cheese board and having a chinwag with a few mates. ...
Endeavour TRUE Vintage
A few years ago I looked at the range of beers coming out of Sydney’s Endeavour Beer Company. I remember talking via emails with the brewer and part owner Andy Stewart at the time, discussing how these beers could hold a little bit of bottle age, and evolve in the bottle. They had sent a couple of samples of their 2010 and 2011 releases of each of their two beers at the time, the True Vintage Pale...