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 […]
Grape Grazing in the Yarra Valley
Grape Grazing in the Yarra Valley Love this cartoon by Matt Golding that accompanied an article in the Age newspaper of 9th October 2016 about deer damaging Yarra Valley vineyards. Apparently deer have a taste for Yarra Valley chardonnay and pinot noir vines which they nibble on nocturnally. These frolicking, furry, four-legged grape-grazers have a penchant […]
Out with the Schramsberg – In with the Trump.
Out with the Schramsberg – In with the Trump. I suspect the Schramsberg 2007 Reserve Sparkings will be replaced by a few Trump 2009 Sparkling Blanc de Blancs in the White House Cellar. Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed teetotaller, owns a handsome winery in Virginia not far from the famous Jefferson Vineyards at Charlottesville near Monticello. […]
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, […]
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 […]
