Wine is serious business. Everybody knows that. You can’t just sling it down, smacking your lips and saying “yeah, that’s alright”, you have to tip the glass solemnly over your nose, then tilt your chin all the way back to take a tiny, angled sip. Trust me, you have to. That’s how I do it, [...]
Tagged red, ShirazI know Pinot Noir means “black pinot” and I’m pretty sure Pinot Grigio means “grey pinot”. Is there a Pinot Blanc? I bet there is somewhere. And what the heck is a pinot anyway? I will abandon these questions, and hopefully I’ll return to them when I’m in a more academic frame of mind. In [...]
Tagged Pinot Grigio, whiteMan, I’ve come to love Wirra Wirra. Their labels are unassuming, so if you are casually browsing the shelves at the store, you may slide right past them, in favour of something with a textured or embossed label. A second glance may raise your interest, as you notice that the wine is labelled “Mrs Wigley” [...]
Tagged Riesling, whiteI don’t really do New Year’s Resolutions, and I don’t really know anybody who does, but oddly enough I do have some plans with regard to wines and drinking this year. Honestly, they can all be boiled down to “try new stuff”, so if you’re already bored, you can probably stop there. Try more champagnes! [...]
Tagged etc.Last year was hard. The last few months, in particular, were very difficult, with stress and illness stalking about the place in a fairly uncomfortable fashion. It was hard, in the context of all the things going on in my little world, to write happily about wines: it seemed trivialising and flippant. But I began [...]
Tagged champagne, sparkling, white