Meet the Makers – Darren and Tracey – RidgeView Wines Little Patch of Dirt Becomes Family’s Passion February 14, 2020 WORDS Michelle Meehan It’s been three decades since Darren and Tracey Scott started coming to the Hunter Valley to indulge in their passion for wine tasting, and 20 years since they decided to create their own.…
Meet the Makers – Ken and Gwen – Mistletoe Wines From Good to Great at Mistletoe Wines February 14, 2020 WORDS Quentin von Essen Ken and Gwen Sloan – owners of Mistletoe Winery, are renowned for creating some of the region’s most awarded and talked about wines from their 5.5-hectare vineyard on Hermitage Road in Pokolbin.…
Hunter Valley wines selected for this project showed larger in-region variations than wines from the other regions. https://www.wineaustralia.com/news/articles/unravelling-regional-typicality-of-shiraz?utm_source=DWN&utm_campaign=a0eb027d7f-DWN_CAMPAIGN_FEB_2020_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1787000e4c-a0eb027d7f-223170765
We are getting our rocks off over terroir, with the International Wine Media Conference, Speed Wine Dating, a Hunter and Gatherers Dinner and our new reporter Lachlan, as he takes Bob on a tour of his Garden.
Andrew ‘Thommo’ Thomas created his first Braemore Semillon on the Hunter Valley in 2000. Having spent 13 years at Tyrells and in nearby vineyards, he bought the Semillon grapes from Ken Bray’s Braemore Vineyard and as he puts it, ‘the rest is history.’ Now this year, Thommo and Thomas Wines celebrate huge Braemore milestones; 50…
Organic/ Biodynamic Wines in the Hunter Valley. Reflecting on the past 20 years of growing grapes and producing wines under the certification of Organic and Biodynamic confirms the positive outcome of looking after the soil and making the most natural wines possible! Macquariedale Organic Wines embarked on the road to sustainability with the purchase of…
Pup and Simon visit a “Hunter’s Aqua Dream” and get taken for a ride. Bob gets the vintage 2019 report straight from the winemaker’s palate.
Vine Sex and Wine Country News Summer of 2018 in the Hunter Valley Australia.
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Our Legend’s lunch this month featured white wines from Germany and reds from northern Italy, just across the border as it were. We really couldn’t think of any serious reds from Germany! The question was asked as to why it took so long for Italian reds to be appreciated in Australia. It may be that…
We have all been there before experiencing a hot summer. Pokolbin is said to derive its name from the Hungarian Pokol which means purgatory or hell. Early European vinedressers who made their way here in the 1840/50s thought the summers were “Hot as Hell”. A theory expressed in Max Lakes book Hunter Wine Makers based…