Category Archives: Wine Travel

Sydneyside Dining Selection

Posted on 13/01/2020 by

We ate some wonderful meals during our time away in October and November, but during our last few days in Sydney we visited three very different restaurants which I’d like to write about before I leave the Southern Hemisphere for … Continue reading →

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Hunter Valley Part 2 – Andrew Thomas

Posted on 18/12/2019 by

If you read an article which perhaps just touches on the Hunter Valley you will see several famous names listed as the region’s best known and finest producers, but the chances are that if a couple of producers less well … Continue reading →

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Hunter Valley Part 1 – Gundog

Posted on 16/12/2019 by

For those people who discovered Australian wine at the time it exploded onto our shores in the UK, during the 1980s, it would probably have been the Hunter Valley wine region where the grapes were sourced. It would not have … Continue reading →

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Clonakilla

Posted on 13/12/2019 by

It doesn’t need anything else in the title, does it. I’ve said before that by personal favourite Australian wine estates have long been Jasper Hill, in Heathcote, and Clonakilla, at Murrumbateman in Canberra District. In the first of my string … Continue reading →

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Polperro – A Small Cornish Gem on the Mornington Peninsula

Posted on 09/12/2019 by

When I first visited Mornington Peninsula about twelve years ago it was just gaining a bit of a name in the UK, where it was seen as very much a cool climate region, all the rage as they say. Located … Continue reading →

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Central Victoria Part 2 – Bindi

Posted on 05/12/2019 by

We have moved south from Bendigo, which was our first destination on this Australian adventure, to the Macedon Ranges. If you drive north out of Melbourne the first wine region you hit is Sunbury. North of that you come to … Continue reading →

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Central Victoria Part 1 – Around Castlemaine

Posted on 04/12/2019 by

Castlemaine is a small town in the old Victorian goldfields. It’s an attractive town in many ways, with plenty of places serving the great food and coffee one comes to expect almost anywhere in Australia, but do pronounce it with … Continue reading →

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Godforsaken Grapes (Book Review)

Posted on 02/12/2019 by

I’d been aware of Jason Wilson’s Godforsaken Grapes (2018) for some time, but it had never really registered as a book I needed to read until an American friend recommended it in the strongest terms. I think what had put me off, … Continue reading →

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Extreme Viticulture in Nepal

Posted on 27/11/2019 by

It lives! After my last article in early October I’ve been travelling. The result will be a host of articles from Australia, though I hope that, by-and-large avoiding the obvious, I won’t be substantially repeating what others have written as … Continue reading →

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Wink Lorch’s Wines of the French Alps

Posted on 08/08/2019 by

It is five years since Wink Lorch self-published her Jura Wine. Over those five years since publication this award winning book has proved an invaluable guide to a region which has gone from backwater to trend setter over less than two … Continue reading →

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