wine woman & song

The ultimate wine brand in in the world is not Lafite. It is Lafite’s second wine: Carruades de Lafite. Once the Bordeaux circus returns...

It’s as if these two Burgundians have run away to the South of France and created something great for the village party. The name of th...

Some Super-Tuscans scream luxury but the 2007 Messorio from Le Macchiole is a quiet wine that opens before you as you taste it, to give the ...

While most Languedoc wines from the difficult vintage of 2002 had the taster asking, “How bad can you be?” This wine is like being in a secl...

I may bang on until I am blue in the face about food matching, but the Anglo-Saxon way is not to think about wine as something to match with...

My report from Tuscany on the beautiful, but dramatic, 2006 Brunello di Montalcino vintage can be found on Tim Atkin's website: here . i...

Home: Wolf Mountain, Mediterranean Translation: Pic-St-Loup, South of France Sound: Pick the Wolf, Howling Honest: yes Satisfying: yes Tradi...

“Then I brought up this question: When you say, Men do desire pleasure, what is this use of “pleasure?” Is it contrasted with pain? Pain is ...

If you prefer your wine tastings all hushed tones, white walls and good lighting, then Bibendum's Annual Tasting was not for you.

Saying pink champagne is romantic is as delusional as saying Paris is feminine when one look at a map shows the city is a continuous paean...

Perhaps deep down I’ve always subscribed to the Oscar Wilde school of thought that Everything Popular is Wrong. So imagine my surprise when ...

First published on VINISSIMA.NET In local Langhe-Piedmont dialect, the name of the white grape Arneis means “crazy, weird, introverted, whim...

Listening to INXS on the way to the Australia Trade tasting, I remembered the moment when Michael Hutchence turned up at a premiere for the ...

First published on VINISSIMA.NET Aglianico del Vulture dei Feudi di San Gregorio 2007 The first taste of Aglianico is like a volcanic er...

This is how to do the new austere well: with a light, baby Barbaresco style wine from a near-abandoned region in Piedmont. Beautiful perfume...

The devil is said to grant any wish. That includes Chilean accountants who want to know Australia’s formula for success in UK supermarket. H...

"But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it w...

Jump for stars!! Find the Princess! Dodge the King! Like a Super Mario, Wine Woman & Song grew twice in size this year to take on extra...

The red colour of Italian cars is not just any red. It comes from a long history of rules, mostly developed between the World Wars, from whe...

This wine had the place smelling like Christmas for a week. Can I give you a tasting note from broken bottle? At around £120 - £140 per bott...

Some headache! The morning after the party to celebrate 30 years of DOCG status in the ancient Tuscan town of Montepulciano, winemakers ...

Being a family with a well-recorded ancient past must not always be pleasant, but at least, like old photos or tear-stained letters, the evi...

I always know it is coming but I never really believe it when does. Winter. Each day seems to deepen my shock. I thought I'd share with ...

By delicious chance, just three weeks before the year finishes, I finally tasted the number one wine on my 2010 Wish List : Tokaji Essencia ...

Often my friend from Rome, perhaps while we are walking down the street to the supermarket on a grey Saturday morning, will abruptly stop, h...

Last night I tasted the Salice Salentino 2005 Riserva by the Candido family in Puglia. Salice Salentino is the name of a style of wine mad...

The image of Australian wine at the moment overseas is supermarket-driven, Chardonnay-championing, industry-driven pah ! You’d be forgiven t...

For a brief moment, I did an internship as a curator for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Like most internships it was unpaid, part...

"....(it was) a spectral grey, as if all the colour has been sucked out by the sun." - Bruce Chatwin in " Anatomy of Restless...

This is a story that starts 2.6 billion years ago. When oxygen first gathered in the atmosphere and single-cell mitochondria ruled the plane...

Just as the smell of clean sheets on the bed can signal a new start after an old affair, the fruit of the 2007 Coriole Vita Reserve Sangiove...

In the past week, there's been a regime shift in Wine Australia , the representative body to the UK, with a second major resignation. Pa...

What is Assyrtiko? Grown on the volcanic soil of the Greek island of Santorini, it is a white wine that when good, is a summer wind by the s...

2009 Chateau Beaucastel En Primeur Tasting Tasting Chateau Beaucastel en primeur is like pressing pause on a moment in Bach’s Brandenburg Co...

Sitting at dinner with Francesca Planeta, it did not surprise me when she told me her wine had run out at Milan Fashion Week.

Hunter Valley Semillon is the reclusive star in Australian wine. While other Australian wines have been all-singing, all-dancing on the wo...

The 01 Pagodes de Cos, the second wine of Cos d'Estournel, is reckless, obstinate and from all accounts of previous vintages , annoying....

When Bill Grundy famously interviewed the Sex Pistols for ITV in 1976 he asked Siouxsie Sioux, was she worried or was she enjoying herself....

It is rare for a Syrah to call Piedmonte its spiritual home, let alone a Syrah from Australia.

(Or, How to Have a Good Divorce Party. Advice to a Friend.) "Dry your eyes, my friend. It's over. The white wedding may have been n...

The 2006 Chinon Vieilles Vignes from Phillipe Alliet may start out as a typical 100% Cabernet Franc from Chinon: pale ruby, fresh and light...

Alongside a glass of champagne or a cab ride in the rain, a good bottle of wine is one of life's affordable luxuries. Yet low-key, easy ...

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller W hy ...

It's a fact that when you are truly dehydrated, the impulse for thirst in the body shuts down. So you never really know if you are dehyd...

There’s a stuffy image to the wine industry. It’s where middle-aged men with cigars who imagine themselves out every night patting strippers...

In the same way as the sculptor Constantin Brancusi sculpted this piece in 1910, the Farrago Chardonnay from Kooyong Estate is spectacularl...

If logic applied, I would not love Amarone della Valpolicella. To say it’s a big style of red is an understatement; it’s dramatic, high in a...