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. […]
Wine Stories
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 […]
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 […]
