By Sarah LeNoue
Choosing Wine for Your Wedding
Most people associate weddings with Champagne; it is the customary choice for wedding toasts. But wines are just as customary and should be considered with care when planning your reception menu. Even if your knowledge of wine is limited, it can be easy to select the right wine for [...]

By Rob Hemphill
At the end of the day there is nothing better than winding down with a glass of wine. So let’s look into low alcohol wine and see why it is good for your health.
If you have visited a wine bar or hotel, you might have noticed that the size of these glasses has [...]

 By Josh Dusick
You don’t have to be a billionaire to appreciate and enjoy fine wine! Appreciating fine wine can be intimidating at first. With the weak dollar and the world popularity of wine skyrocketing, it seems like wine is becoming more and more inaccessible. And for those of you who are new to the world [...]

 By Christ Ooper
Ask anyone who is passionate about a particular sport or hobby and they’ll tell you that to get started, you need the right equipment - a cyclist needs a decent bike and helmet, a golfer needs a good set of clubs. What they don’t tell you up front is the kind of stuff [...]

A delicious example of how great this grape can be from the people responsible for the Ona wines.
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Champagne for St Valentines Day is an excellent idea. Valentines & Champagne go hand in hand, Champagne for celebrations & Valentines Day is the celebration of love & romance. Conditions suitable for making Dom Perignon white vintage do not guarantee the production of a Rose. The pale salmon colour is achieved [...]

Champagne for St Valentines Day is an excellent idea. Valentines & Champagne go hand in hand, Champagne for celebrations & Valentines Day is the celebration of love & romance. Created in 1876, this is a Champagne at it's finest, as inspired today as it has always been, the embodiment of elegance and purity. [...]

Wine for St Valentines Day is an excellent idea. Valentines & Wine go hand in hand, wine for celebrations & Valentines Day is the celebration of love & romance. J Bouchon wines are an excellent choice to please different moments and tastes. J Bouchon Chardonnay & J Bouchon Rose perfectly accomapnied for the ideal [...]

Plump and soft, yet crisply fruity, with ripe apple and pear aromas, a textbook Alsace Pinot Blanc that's almost as much of a mouthful as its source: 'The Cave Vinicole de Pfaffenheim and Guberschwihr'. Not the most marketable name, but wines from this ultra-reliable co-op (often 'Best in France') are sought-after worldwide. The place is [...]

Aim to have at least half-a-dozen bottles of this sure-fire impressive, stupendous value, pleasingly fruity 100% Chardonnay Champagne in your house (office, club, shed …) at all times. Le Mesnil soars way above other Champagne co-operative wineries, thanks to Gilles Marguet's meticulous management. He ensures that the Chardonnay bounty of one of the Côte des [...]

There's nothing lean, mean or green about the Loire Cabernet Francs of Frédéric Mabileau. As wife Nathalie (mother of two dimpled boys) says "He knows how to make chubby babies. " Frédéric lovingly tends his Bourgeuil vineyards, ploughing between rows to aerate the soil, and pruning and training to expose bunches to maximum sunlight. His [...]

When William Cossart arrived in Madeira in 1808 after a 6 year journey from Dublin (his boat was hijacked by the French), William Gordon, founder of the island's oldest shipper, had the prefix he'd been waiting for. Fugitive from Scotland's '45 Rebellion', Gordon was pleased that his wines were used to toast America's Declaration of [...]

Pierre Gassman insists on late harvesting and lengthy cellaring after bottling, creating amply sweet, weighty yet balanced wines. This sumptuous, aromatic Riesling, ideal with poached fish or cheese fondue, offers a complex palate of fresh, honeyed, citrus zest flavours. Such depth of character is evident in all the wines from this celebrated, biodynamically-cultivated domaine, tended [...]

White Burgundy in a league of its own. Rich and golden, with honeyed depths and racy minerality; a wine for buttery scallops or fish carpaccio. Mâconnais vigneron extraordinaire Jean Thévenet makes awesomely intense Chardonnays using methods others shun as commercially suicidal. Risking calamitous weather, his grapes are picked over-ripe, often yielding wines of surpassing richness. [...]

Cheery Kiwi winemaker and micro-biologist John Forrest has assembled a range of wines reflecting his exuberant personality and ongoing experimental quest to capture 'essence of place'. This sumptuous Marlborough Chardonnay offers enticing aromas of honeyed lemons, toasted brioche and freshly-ground spice, leading to a ripe, peachy palate lent balance and structure by seamless acidity and [...]

Impeccably organic, an impressive alliance of lush, cassis-rich Cabernet and gamey, generous Syrah. Domaine Richeaume lies at the foot of Provence's Sainte-Victoire mountain. The winery itself was built on the vestiges of a Roman Villa by organic vigneron Henning Hoesch. All viticulture at the estate is biodynamic, to the extent that a flock of sheep [...]

Substantial, well-structured, biodynamic claret with ripe concentration of black fruit flavours and restrained oak. John and Véronique Cochran, whose vineyards spread out from their 14th century château (once home to the lords of Lansac, faithful to the English Crown) in an area called 'the little Switzerland of the Gironde' have won praise for their wines [...]

Special occasion stuff, this: a super-premium Australian Chardonnay made at the cool-climate Yarra Valley outpost of famous Champagne house Moet & Chandon. The focus here is, as you'd expect, on classic fizz, but elegant still wines are also produced from Champagne grape varieties. The fresh, peachy character of this wine was complexed by fermentation and [...]

Dr Bailey Carrodus (now sadly deceas ed)was one of the best and most innovative of all Aussie winemakers. He chose the Yarra Valley in Victori a for its cool climate and the world soon followed him. Esposing old worl techniques his wines have a length a nd finesse to them which soon earnt him an [...]

Jean-Paul Versino makes one of the finest, velvety smooth, Grenache dominant wines of this region
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This classic medium-dry sherry hails from the 140-year-old Sanlucar de Barrameda cellars of Pedro Romero, which used to supply more sizeable bodegas but now bottles wines under its own name. Deep amber colour, aromas of almonds and dried figs and a rich, dry, appetisingly savoury palate.
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