wine
Real World Tastings
I often remark on here about how when we taste wine around at our regular “Wet Wednesday” sessions that its quite different from how we judge a wine, or beers for that fact, at competitions. At a Wine Show you are taking a sip of the wine, aerating it a bit, and spitting, you’re looking at colour, flavour profiles, tannin and acid structure, mouthfeel and finish to name just a few points. Jotting...
Wine Fridge 101
Summer is just around the corner and it gets anyone that has a wine collection, or is thinking of starting a wine collection, or heck, even just wants to be able to save a few bob and buy their wine by the carton, starts thinking about how to store the collection. Not all of us have a wine cellar, in fact what I refer to as my cellar is actually a spot under the stairs that has a three wine fridge...
Seabrook Wines
The name Seabrook Wines will ring a bell for a lot of wine drinkers, or those with long memories at the least, having been part of the Australian wine landscape since 1878 when the family started WJ Seabrook and Son. Since then they have been involved in many forms – wine brokers, wine judges, exporters or negociants (the French term for a wine merchant who uses the fruit of smaller growers ...
How to Start a Cellar….
Wondering how to actually go about starting that cellar? Here's a few tips.
Winemakers crafting beers
I don’t mind a beer or three, and nor do a lot of the winemakers I have met. So much so that it’s not uncommon now days to see a winemakers name on the side of a bottle of beer. The Debortoli name is on the side of the William Bull beers. In fact their beers are so good that their Limited Release Pale Ale took out the top gong at the Royal Queensland Food and Wine show. Interestingly a lot of wine...
To Breathe or not to Breathe
“To Breathe or not to Breathe ….what was the question?” Recently I was asked about decanting wines and why do it. I thought there might be others out there that were interested in this too, and thought I’d use this week’s column to answer. Decanting can be a vague issue. If I was to ask 20 wine people their opinion on it, I’d probably get 25 different answers, plus a lecture on “Why I prefer...
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