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Nobody would be game argue with me about my love of Central Victorian Shiraz - from the Goldfields and Grampians to Great Western, some...

This is a special release so I am not sure of how much is around. The team at Parker may be able to help you source some where you are....

Just as the sunshine comes after the rain, so too does a good wine bar experience follow a rather ordinary one. With aging bones and...

A couple bottles of this ended up on the bench. From whence they came, we are not sure but it was a wine day and so, we popped the lid...

You know those nights when you just feel the need to open something special? There is a chill late winter nip in the air outside and beef...

When we talk about wine experiences in South Australia, people often will jump to the Barossa, McLaren Vale and even the Adelaide Hills...

Lagavulin distillery - Islay - Scotland Known widely in the whisky community by a single statement: The King. A dram of this amber liquid...

Juicy IPA, NEIPA (New England IPA), Hazy IPA and East Coast IPAs are synonyms of themselves and they utterly delight me. This style is...

When you want to impress a date, there are many ways to do so. I chose to seduce with a bottle of Neil Prentice's Moondarra 2019 Pinot...

Hand on heart, I don't get rum. I'm not a rum drinker thanks to an over exuberant indulgence at a B&S ball in my late teens. Drinking...

From the team who gave Perth both Ezra Pound and The Bird, comes North Bird. It joins the growing trend of wine stores doubling as eating houses, bars and all manner of places to scoff turps and tucker. The focus here, which we love, is small batch, hard to find and natural wines. They stock the likes of Latta Vino, Koerner alongside some smaller wineries producing interesting varietals and orange style wines. It is a wine lovers heaven, and there is some food that is as s

I have a confession to make and it's all about mancrushing on the Koerner brothers, Damon and Jono. They are happy, smiley and have a...

I love having things other people want or don't know about. It never surprises me when I find something I think is really new, and have...

La Petit Mort means the little dead, and is a side project of the better know Granite Belt operation Bent Road in ballandean in...

Every city needs a good gin bar. Melbourne boasts a number of them, including the iconic Gin Palace Brisbane has a slew of them, with...

Yes, okay. We know, we are a bunch of gin soaks. While we love to drink wine,and vodka and whisky and all the other manna from the boozy...

This Scoffer is not a fan of flavoured spirits - more a traditional, drink straight from the bottle kind of drinker, me! But now and...

Owen Latta has some stones. He makes some adventurous and technically astute wines, just out of Ballarat. He also makes Rattlesnake which...

I remember, back in the old days when we could go to events, schlepping my way around a #pinotpalooza or two, looking for one or three of...

I have the luxury of hoofing back and forth to the Yarra Valley, in Melbourne's far outer east. Its annoying for Yarra Valley business,...