Jackson Family Wines (JFW) – Part Two – Redoubtable reds. Following on from my recent JFW lunch – now for the remaining quartet of JFW redoubtable reds which are as follows: Yangarra High Sands 2006 Grenache Stonestreet Rockfall 2010 Cabernet Mount Brave 2012 Cabernet Cardinale 2012 Cabernet Yangarra High Sands 2006 Grenache, McLaren Vale, South Australia […]
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Another Jackson family from the USA hitting the right note!
Jackson Family Wines. Forget the fancy footwork and musical gyrations – Yes, there’s another Jackson family from the USA hitting the right note! Had the pleasure of meeting Christopher (Chris) and Ariel Jackson of Jackson Family Wines (JFW) www.jacksonfamilywines.com recently at a lunch hosted by the ebullient Phil Hude from Armadale Cellars in Melbourne. It was […]
Main Ridge Estate, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria
Main Ridge Estate. – Pinot without ego. What can you say about Nathaniel (Nat) White and his Main Ridge Estate wines that has not already been said? The quality and character of the former shines through in the latter. Both are inseparable, both are impeccable and both deserve the praise that’s long been bestowed on them. […]
Koshu wine – Quintessentially Japanese.
The Japanese love their shōchū, sake, whisky and beer, and lately even their wine, especially if it’s made from the emerging and increasingly popular Koshu grape grown in Katsunuma in Yamanashi Prefecture (the Bordeaux of Japan) among the foothills of Mount Fuji. I visited Yamanashi recently and was both surprised and impressed by Koshu’s delicacy, […]
Liquid Red Caviar
For many sparkling reds remain a bit of an enigma, relegated to an occasional novelty when served chilled at Christmas dinner on a boiling hot summer’s day or when accompanying a lamb chop at an Australia Day barbecue – Mr.Lambassador Sam Kekovich take note! I used to be a closet sparking red drinker for yonks, […]
Rutherglen – more than you imagine.
‘Dig gentleman dig, but no deeper than six inches, for there is more gold to be won from the top six inches than from all of the depths below’ Lindsay Brown of ‘Gooramadda Run’ In the late 1870’s and early 1880s Victoria reigned supreme as the capital of Australian wine so much so that it produced […]
From Bacchus to Bordeaux and Beyond.
There’s something immediately engaging and inherently attractive that imbues Oz Clarke’s wine writing. It’s like drinking a fizz with finesse, it’s bubbly, exuberant, entertaining and evocative. Besides, it’s easy to warm to someone who likes Dickens, a d’Arenberg red and who would spend part of his ideal fantasy day swimming at Port Willunga, followed by […]
