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...

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,...

There is a lot of wine I like. A lot. And my taste wanders from finding quirky alternative varietals, to wandering back to robust and...

There had been many a time one of the fellow Scoffers and I have walked past a venue, and reminded each other we should go in and check...

It has been said Barney Flanders is a genius. Who is he you ask? A craftsman, an artisan, a perfectionist - yes, to all of those. But he...