
Wine of the Month – the Chardonnay renaissance
It’s amazing how out of favour Chardonnay has fallen in recent years. But in spite of evoking frowns and even dry retching at the…
It’s amazing how out of favour Chardonnay has fallen in recent years. But in spite of evoking frowns and even dry retching at the…
The first thing I do when I‘m in a restaurant is check the wine list. I usually go straight to the Shiraz section as…
Penfolds Grange Hermitage – or just straight ‘Grange’ to its friends – is roundly considered as one of the world’s greatest wines. It’s certainly…
Until recently I never bothered decanting my wine. It was a case of how quickly can I get this stuff in my guts?! But…
There’s not much to be happy about when the short days and chilly nights come to Sydney; but there is one thing: Shiraz! Yup,…
Over here in Sydney, we’re getting ready to turn our clocks back an hour, pull out our coats and bunker down for the winter….
For a long time, Mrs Romance and I didn’t drink red wine. Crazy, isn’t it? These days we drink more red than white –…
Whenever I think of rosé wine, I immediately think of sickly sweet alcopop with lashings of hangover. I’ve always avoided this type of wine…
Christmas: it’s my favourite wine season! So instead of focusing on one particular bottle or singling out an individual winery this month, we’ve decided to…