Sep
07
2010
Champagne drinkers know that the wines they like are amongst the best in the world. The smell, taste and fizz from a good champage is enjoyment for your taste buds, nose and ears. The name champagne is restricted to wines from the champagne area of France. Only wines made from one year of grapes can [...]
Sep
06
2010
There is no better way to enjoy great wine than by taking a trip through our fabulous wine regions. There you can indulge in wine tasting of some great wines from any given region around the country.
An often rewarding experience is conversing with a very passionate winemakers while sampling their wines.
To organise such [...]
Sep
02
2010
In order to develop a taste for wine, keep tasting — and write down as many specifics as you can when you find a wine you like. Red wine or white wine? What grape? Which wine region? And so on, so that over time you can see a profile of the particular qualities that please [...]
Sep
01
2010
Now is the great time to get into wine storage and keep those reds in your cellar or under your bed. Who doesn’t want their own wine cellar? You won’t need to renovate your home. Your wine cellar could simply be keeping some nice reds in a cool part of your house for a several [...]
Sep
01
2010
While Australia has more drinkers who buy wine than any other Western country, Aussie baby boomers are driving wine sales growth, not young consumers as once thought, says an industry researcher.
CEO of Wine Intelligence (market research group) Lulie Halstead, said older drinkers in Australia are moving away from traditional beer and spirits to wine. [...]
Sep
01
2010
Wine tasting festival is an event taken place in a particular cellar or a place, where wine experts gather together to taste and evaluate the wine. This can be done for old wines or new wines. These days the wine tasting methodology has changed from what it used to be in the 14th century. To [...]
Sep
01
2010
It’s probably fair to say that England isn’t particularly well known for its wine. People in the UK spend a lot of money on wines from abroad, rarely stopping to consider buying an English bottle. Despite this however, the English wine industry has been steadily producing some increasingly fantastic wines over the last few years, [...]
Sep
01
2010
The art of finding those special wine labels can needlessly bring on a mild anxiety attack in many inexperienced wine drinkers as they search for the best Australian wines to serve at home. I have seen it before – it is the wine drinking parallel to a fihs out of water. With so many grape [...]
Sep
01
2010
Champagne has always been a way to celebrate milestones. Considered to be a flexible beverage, Champagne can be served with a meal or with dessert. For many years, this truly refreshing and exotic drink has been used as a way of celebrating and just enjoying the times that lie ahead.
Champagne comes from the vineyards of [...]
Sep
01
2010
Penfolds Grange continues to be the most collected wine label in the country.
Wine Ark One, one of Australia’s leading cellaring companies analysed over 3 million bottles that has been stored by members in compiling their ranking of the top 50 Australian stored wines. The most popular wine of each variety was given an award.
Wine flavours [...]