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These white wines are better after a lie-down (opens the original)
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Bunny and Yvonne Peglidis have been farming their dry-grown vineyard at Watervale in South Australia’s Clare Valley for half a century. Every year they spend autumn harvesting the grapes – Bunny, aged 93, on the tractor and Yvonne, aged 85, picking and lugging buckets of riesling. Then, in winter, they prune the vines. “Is there a better advert for the benefits of hard work and regular glasses of riesling?” asks winemaker Kerri Thompson, who has been making a single vineyard wine from the Peglid
An idiot’s guide to wine is coming to a comedy venue near you (opens the original)
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I’m in a large room full of people sitting at round tables, cabaret style. Each person has six glasses of wine in front of them, and we’re being led through the line-up by a bloke up the front with a microphone. So far, so normal: I spend much of my professional life in situations just like this. But unlike any other wine tasting I’ve been to, this roomful of people is also rolling about in hysterical laughter, because the bloke up the front is comedian Merrick Watts, a familiar figure on the Au
The Aussie red that messes with all the wine rules (opens the original)
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Winemaker Alan Varney didn’t set out to produce a multi-vintage, multi-varietal red. But that’s exactly what his latest super-premium, limited-release wine became: 2021 nebbiolo blended with 2022 sagrantino and 2023 montepulciano. It’s called Triplo and it messes deliciously with all sorts of wine rules and expectations. “It started with me thinking about how tannic nebbiolo can be,” says Varney. “Especially in the cooler climate of the Adelaide Hills, where I source my nebbiolon grapes, it prod
Australia’s oldest wine competition is a little different this year (opens the original)
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A phalanx of winemakers, sommeliers, writers and retailers descended on the Sydney Showground in late July to judge the Sydney Royal Wine Show, Australia’s oldest wine competition, celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. As per longstanding tradition, one of those judges was an expert flown in from the other side of the world to both bring an international perspective to proceedings and to spread the word on their return about the quality of wines encountered Down Under.
The rosé our drinks editor will be drinking this summer (opens the original)
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Fun, frivolous, fresh, fruity. That’s how most of us think about rosé: a wine best drunk on a warm day, without much thought, when it’s young, a year or so after vintage. Winemaker Marcell Kustos thinks differently. “Of course there’s a place for cheap’n’cheerful rosés,” he says. “But I believe there’s also room for serious, complex rosés that deserve to be at the table in the finest of restaurants.” Kustos started making small batches of wine under the LVDO label in 2018, a “passion project” al
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