Gallica Cabernet Franc
Who makes it? Gallica Cabernet Franc is an organic Napa Valley red wine. The vines grow in Oakville AVA on the Oakville Ranch Vineyard. According to owner and winemaker, Rosemary Cakebread, “Cabernet Franc is really hitting its stride in California’. Undoubtedly, with...
Winemusing ONLINE Session: Great Southern Lands
Wines from the Southern Hemisphere... Explore wines from the Southern Hemisphere that will delight your taste buds and challenge your perception on what these countries can produce. Your tour guide for the night will be local Aussie Lisa giving a mini masterclass...
Majella Sparkling Shiraz Vintage
Who makes it? Majella Sparkling Shiraz is one of the benchmark Sparkling Shiraz wines in Australia. And for good reason. It is a wine that winelovers should try at least once in their life. How fortuitous was it that Brian Lynn did an assignment about the local...
Drink more Dolcetto? Yes, please!
Dolcetto is a grape that certainly beats to its own drum in a small regional band. It gets much love in its region, however, so few people know this amiable grape. And there is much to love. In fact, it is all there in the name. Indeed, with a name that...
Winemusing Session: Discovering the Americas
What is new and rediscovering the American classics - North and South ... There are some exciting wines to be found from the Americas, from both North and South America, as well as the classics. This is the time to get your head around some Californian Viognier, or do...
De Bortoli Phi Pinot Noir
Who makes it? De Bortoli have been making wines in Australia since the 1920s. It wasn’t long after Vittorio De Bortoli moved from Treviso to New South Wales that he was making wine. The family makes a wide range of wines and the Phi is one of their showcase...
Are you game? Sparkling Wine
Who makes it? Are You Game, Sparkling Non- Vintage is another quirky wine from Fowles, a family winery based in Victoria. It has the benefit of having a cellar door that is easy to reach on the highway between Melbourne and the NSW border. Being so close to...
Ecker Gruner Von Eckhof
Who makes it? Ecker Gruner Von Eckhof is a Gruner Veltliner wine from the Ecker family estate. The family’ focus has been on making wine since the 1980s. In 1990, they opened up for Heuriger for the first time. The estate is also fully organic too (since...
Calmel & Joseph L’Art du Vers Terrasses du Larzac
Who makes it? Calmel & Joseph L’Art du Vers is one of three wines the producer makes from Terrasses du Larzac. Laurent Calmel and Jerome Joseph showcase wines the Languedoc-Roussilon. Undoubtedly, they are Southern France specialists and part of their focus is on...
CVNE Barrel Fermented Rioja Blanca
Who makes it? CVNE Barrel Fermented is a white Rioja made by one of Rioja’s pioneer wine companies. A company that now includes wines under Imperial, Vina Real, Contino and Monopole. White Rioja is usually overshadowed by the red wines of that esteemed Spanish wine...
Savagnin blanc! Why you should be drinking Savagnin….
Savagnin blanc has been gaining popularity with the lovers of the wine world’s unique offerings. However, the grape itself is not likely to be in the spotlight. Instead, winelovers will know it better though its expression as Vin Jaune. Vin Jaune, or ‘yellow’ wine is...
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Winemusing ONLINE Session: Great Southern Lands
Wines from the Southern Hemisphere... Explore wines from the Southern Hemisphere that will delight your taste buds and challenge your perception on what these countries can produce. Your tour guide for the night will be local Aussie Lisa giving a mini masterclass...
Winemusing Session: Discovering the Americas
What is new and rediscovering the American classics - North and South ... There are some exciting wines to be found from the Americas, from both North and South America, as well as the classics. This is the time to get your head around some Californian Viognier, or do...
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Savagnin blanc! Why you should be drinking Savagnin….
Savagnin blanc has been gaining popularity with the lovers of the wine world’s unique offerings. However, the grape itself is not likely to be in the spotlight. Instead, winelovers will know it better though its expression as Vin Jaune. Vin Jaune, or ‘yellow’ wine is...
Part 2: Sous voile wines & Vin Jaune
Sous voile wines are distinctive and outside of the Jura region, they are still rare finds. To read more about Vin Jaune from the Jura, please go back and read Part 1: Vin Jaune Vin Jaune wines are made solely from Savagnin blanc. They are one of the unique...
Vin Jaune
Vin Jaune aka Yellow Wine. While many winelovers are enjoying ‘amber wine’ (or ‘orange wine’ by another name), you really should also try ‘yellow wine’. Or Vin Jaune. This is one of the distinctive white wine styles of the world and comes from the Jura region of...
Chateau Ksara – Winery Spotlight
George Sara from Chateau Ksara and wine writer Michael Karam Chateau Ksara is one of Lebanon’s wine estates that is woven into the country’s history. And the region’s wine making history includes a Roman temple dedicated to Bacchus. The wineries in the...
Bouvet Ladubay in the spotlight
Bouvet Ladubay is a sparkling light along the Loire Valley. Undoubtedly, they are a Crémant de Loire AOC and a Saumur AOP specialist. As a sparkling wine house, they have been producing fizz for over 170 years. Remarkably, Etienne Bouvet and Celestine Ladubay's...
Tahbilk – A bottled history in Marsanne
The Tahbilk range of marsanne tells a rich story steeped in the pioneering spirit of Australian winemaking and the Purbrick family. Nowhere else in Australia, to my knowledge, has the breadth of choice of straight marsanne wine on offer. The first vines The...
Women in Wine:
Gallica Cabernet Franc
Who makes it? Gallica Cabernet Franc is an organic Napa Valley red wine. The vines grow in Oakville AVA on the Oakville Ranch Vineyard. According to owner and winemaker, Rosemary Cakebread, “Cabernet Franc is really hitting its stride in California’. Undoubtedly, with...
Oliver’s Taranga Fiano
Who makes it? Oliver’s Taranga Fiano is always one that I look forward to tasting. I am always keen to see each new vintage, to see what how Corrina has honed the wine this time. Each vintage is a snapshot in time, showing the potential of this relatively new...
Cote Bonneville Chardonnay
Who makes it? Cote Bonneville is a family winery in the Yakima Valley, Washington State. The Shiels family expanded the vineyard back in the early 1990s when they purchased it and daughter, Kerry Shiels, is now the winemaker. The oldest block in their DuBrul Vineyard...