New South Wales

Robert Stein Riesling – a summer go-to

As the Australian daytimes get longer and the summer storms begin to roll in, most of us tend to eschew…

1 year ago

Robert Stein 2019 Dry Riesling

If you’ve ever been to a wine appreciation night or wine club meeting, you’d be well familiar with the “blind…

4 years ago

Discovering Angullong

It’s an ironic if not cruel twist of fate, but when our viticulturists do it tough through the drought, it’s…

4 years ago

Bordeaux style wines from Orange – Patina Wines “Jezza” 2016

The Bordeaux blend style of red is up there with the bestselling in the world, and for good reason. The…

4 years ago

Organic wines – Pig in the House

Right up there on the list of discredited old wives’ tales (is that a politically incorrect term these days?) is…

4 years ago

Angullong Reds

The emerging Orange wine district in the Central Ranges of New South Wales has developed quite a name for itself…

5 years ago

Mudgee Cabernet

The world’s most widely planted premium red wine grape, cabernet sauvignon was once exclusively found in France, but over the…

5 years ago

Meerea Park Indie Rousanne 2018

Australia's take on a French classic is best found in the South It may seem counter-intuitive to many of us,…

5 years ago

Cool vines offer variety

Orange's climate elevation and diurnal temperature range is perfect for a number of grape varieties It’s always struck me as…

5 years ago

Too Good to Resist

Nick Spencer Gruner Veltliner 2018 Back in the 1920’s when Jack O’Hagan penned his famed Australian folk song, there was…

5 years ago