Barossa
Home to some of Australia’s most famous wine producers, (Penfold’s Grange is made here) grapes have been grown for wine in this historic area of South Australia since the mid 19th Century, and in terms of both Australian and worldwide wine production Barossa is very highly regarded for it’s serious quality wines and great heritage.
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Clare Valley
Clare Valley is a region that often gets overlooked in favour of the more celebrated and well known regions of Barossa, Coonawarra and Margaret River and yet when you look at the wines that are made there it’s hard to understand quite why it is. With a history nearly as long as Barossa wine, of
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The Hunter Valley
Situated just to the north east of Sydney, Australia’s most important market for wine, the Hunter Valley is not as prominent a wine producing region as its more famous counterparts surrounding the smaller cities of Adelaide or Perth. The difficult yet unique climate nevertheless produces some outstanding wines and what is more, wines that stylistically
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Coonawarra
Coonawarra is Aboriginal for “wild honeysuckle”. This cigar-shaped piece of land sits approximately 55 m above sea level and is only 12 km long and 2 km wide. It is the most southerly region in South Australia’s Limestone Coast zone and is pretty much all vineyard – land here is highly sought after. It has
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Mornington Peninsular
In my previous post I suggested that those who are sounding the death knell for Australian wines had got it wrong, in fact I might go so far as to suggest that they probably haven’t tasted anything recently. Sure cheap wines aren’t as exciting as they were, nor as cheap and other countries are doing
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Aussie Worries….
Bashing the Australian wine industry seems to becoming a bit of a trend in certain wine circles with journalists loving putting the boot in. The problem I have is it’s all getting a little bit boring and a little bit personal. Sure Wine Australia, the body responsible for promoting Australian wine, have had some issues
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World Spirits Competition – Double Gold Winners
Best Single Malt Scotch – Caol Ila Distillers Edition Aberlour 16 Year Old Ardbeg Uigeadail Bowmore 15 Year Old Cardhu 12 Year Old Connemara Cask Strength Flor de Cana 4yo Blanco Flor de Cana 4yo Gold Glen Grant 10 Year Old Glen Garioch Founder’s Reserve Glenfiddich 15 Year Old Glenfiddich 21 Year Old Glenmorangie 18
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World Spirits Competition – Gold Winners
Aberfeldy 12 Year Old Balblair 1989 Beefeater Gin Bowmore 12 Year Old Bulleit Bourbon Bushmills Black Bush Chase Marmalade Vodka Connemara Peated Irish Whiskey Connemara 12 Year Old Peated Irish Whiskey Courvoisier VS Elmer T Lee Bourbon Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon Glenfiddich 18 Year Old Glenfiddich Snow Phoenix Glenmorangie 25 Year Old Havana Club
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New Chase Vodka products in….
Yes – even more Chase, we’ve got just six bottles (out of just 1000 produced) of Chase Smoked Vodka and we have also decided to list Chase Naked Vodka to see how you Chase enthusiasts like that…..
World Spirits Competition – some Silver winners
Some of the silver medal winners Aberlour 12 year old Aberlour Abun’adh Absolut Citron Absolut Peppar An Cnoc 12 Year Old Antica Sambuca Ardbeg 10 Year Old Ardbeg Corryvreckan Auchentoshan Three Wood Auchentoshan Twelve Year Old Bacardi Gold Balblair 2000 Beefeater 24 Gin Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old Bushmills Irish Whiskey Caorunn Gin Courvoisier VSOP Eagle
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