(Image: Fletcher Website) Fletcher Wines New Release For the Wines I consider myself lucky to be making wines in the Langhe and even luckier that I have no legacy to follow. It’s led to a freedom to play and deconstruct tradition, all in an attempt to start afresh without any boundaries. I’m on a constant … Read More
(Image: Gentle Folk Website) Gentle Folk About Gareth & Rainbo Belton – Owners, Growers and Winemakers Prior to winegrowing, we were both marine scientists, specialising in phycology (the study of marine plants). In our PhD studies (at different universities), we studied the biodiversity of different seaweed groups and how they are related. It was … Read More
(Image: Protero Wines Website) Protero Wines New Releases About Halliday Wine Companion – Best New Wineries – Runners-up Protero Adelaide Hills A short narrative on a long time line; 2004, Stephen, Fiona, Bella and Finn return from Piedmont to find Nebbiolo growing in the Northern Adelaide Hills just outside Gumeracha. Planted by Rose and Frank Baldasso … Read More
(Image: Maidenii) Maidenii . Story Vermouth is a combination of wine, wormwood and various botanicals, which through the ages has been used for reasons both medicinal and magical. A vital cocktail component as well as inherently drinkable on its own, Vermouth is an unchallenged staple. When Maidenii was conceived, there was no Australian Vermouth on … Read More
(Image: Never Never) Never Never Distilling Co. . Story Fearless Spirit Never Never Distilling Co. is the story of us, three people with a passion for flavour, having a serious go at creating Australia’s most exciting and innovative gin brand. It is the culmination of our separate journeys, three paths walked that have managed to … Read More
(Photo: The sundial at the heart of the Juffer Sonnenuhr vineyard) German Grosses Gewachs arrivals: Battenfeld Spanier (Rheinhessen) & Fritz Haag (Mosel) Grosses Gewachs from Jancis Robinon’s Oxford Companion to Wine: “Grosses Gewächs — (pronounced ‘guh-vex’) is a prestige wine category devised by Germany’s vdp and in use (though no longer exclusively by its members) since 2002, starting … Read More
(Photo: Blind Corner) Summer Petillant Naturel arrivals Summer’s coming and there is no more apt summer quaffer than a chilled, thirst-quenching Pet Nat. All our new vintage 2021 Petillants are available as below: As Jancis Robinson describes in The Oxford Companion to wine: “Pétillant naturel, lightly sparkling wine that is relatively low in alcohol and usually … Read More
(Photo: Wildman Wines) Wildman Wines 2021 Spring Release 2021 Wildman Wine Astro Bunny Pét-Nat Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale, Riverland Zibibbo 30%, Fiano 26%, Arneis 24% Nero d’Avola 17%, Mataro 3% ‘A cult classic of the minimal intervention scene’ – @LoveTillyDevine HOW IT TASTES Nectarine orange colour with explosive peachy, floral aromas. Frothy and foaming bubbles deliver mouthfuls … Read More
Ochota Barrels 2021 November Spring Release 2021 Ochota Barrels Spring offer Amber Ochota faced the 2021 vintage head-on, without her label namesake, love of her life, father of her children and husband who they together built Ochota Barrels since inception. Somehow, along with Taras’ dad Yari, assistant Louis Schofield, Taras’ long-time mentor Peter Leske and … Read More
(Photo: Pooley Website) Pooley 2020 Summer Release About Pooley Wines was established in 1985 when the late Denis and Margaret Pooley planted ten rows of Riesling and seven rows of Pinot Noir on their 16-hectare farm at Cooinda Vale in the Coal River Valley in southern Tasmania, and then a further second vineyard in the … Read More
