I’m happy to say that I expect to have quite a few more Tasmanian wine reviews! Our mixed dozen from the Tamar Valley has arrived, and we are happily, slowly, working our way through them. One of the nicest things about our trundle through the Tamar Valley is that you can pick up a bottle [...]
Tagged Pinot NoirBay of Fires wines, apart from having both an awesome name and an exceptional location, do an excellent line of white wines. When we rocked up to do a tasting, in late June, it was very quiet and very, very beautiful. A lot of the Tamar Valley wineries close up the cellar door during June, [...]
Tagged pinot grisHoly cow, Tasmania, you kept quiet about this one! My partner and I recently got back from a fantastic trip around Tasmania, the lovely land of excellent wines and cheese (and apples, apparently, but I wasn’t really in the market for them). We did some wine tasting in the Tamar Valley which was heavenly. Being [...]
Tagged Shiraz, TasmaniaDon’t just sit there, celebrate something! While sorting through old delicious. magazines the other day (culling the herd, etc.) I came across an advertisement for, I think, Jacob’s Creek sparkling something-or-other. The above was its tagline, and it kinda got me thinking, as most things do. I love champagne — and I use the term [...]
Tagged etc.Name: B3 2006 Riesling. Status: Chilly and refreshing. To kill. I’m sorry, I tried to make this all sci-fi and awesome. I like the name “B3 2006 Riesling” because it sounds like a sort of robot. It’s awesome enough without any robots, though. It is slim, beautiful and elegant in the bottle, with a parchment [...]
Tagged Riesling“The Seven Surveys Old Vines” is the name of tonight’s wine although it the label has so many names that I’m not sure if that’s enough to identify it. I love that name. It echoes of history, stories and interest. This is Peter Lehman’s Old Vines GSM, and the inclusion of the acronym somehow makes [...]
Tagged GSMI realise now, after having this blog for a little while, that I have committed a greivous oversight in failing to address the blog’s eponym, the quaff. The quaff, as you can probably tell by its old-timey sounding name, is a traditional imbibing technique that has been honed over generations. The key element of the [...]
Tagged quaffingOh, sparkling red wine, how I love thee. As a matter of fact, I like sparkling red so much that I was tempted to write a sonnet about. But I’m fairly sure the blog gods have got strict rules about neglecting your blog and then returning with a sonnet, so I would probably get smacked [...]
Tagged burgundy, sparklingChardonnay is known in this country for a boom, a bust, an ironic following and the expression ‘ABC drinkers’, meaning ‘Anything But Chardonnay’ drinkers. I think (and I am calling upon scant research here) that the explosion in popularity chardonnay had internationally was at roughly the same time as an overall sudden growth spurt in [...]
Tagged chardonnayFor all my good intentions regarding the consumption of more pinot noir this year, I haven’t had more than one or two. I certainly haven’t been showing the initiative I could have. So now, in order to make up for this laxity, I present a fantastic pinot noir for consideration: Taylors Adelaide Hills 2008. Ordinarily, [...]
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