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, […]
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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 […]
Seville Estate – sharing the future with the past.
The Yarra Valley’s renaissance as a premium, cool climate producer in early 1970s owes much to the likes of Peter McMahon (Seville Estate), Bailey Carrodus (Yarra Yering) and John Middleton (Mount Mary). About the same time as Max Lake founded Lakes Folly in the Hunter, the entrepreneurial Reg Eagan planted Wantirna Estate’s first vines and […]
