MBMike Bennie

1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Mike Bennie

   The rise of the ‘fridge red’: Three red wines perfect for chilling (from $28) (opens the original)

   Excerpt · English

   Read excerpt

   Red wine has spent far too long sitting at the serious end of the drinks table waiting patiently for someone to explain why it shouldn’t be allowed near an Esky. We chill beer, white wine, rosé and sparkling, yet suggest cooling a red and someone inevitably appears in a blazer with elbow patches to defend centuries of tradition. Somehow red wine has escaped one of the greatest inventions in human history: refrigeration. For generations, we’ve been told to serve red wine at “room temperature”, ad

   Feedback

2. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · Mike Bennie

   Are you still matching cheese with wine? These drinks are way better (opens the original)

   Excerpt · English

   Read excerpt

   It’s heresy to say this, but the old-world canon of gastronomy is often wrong: its dictum, for instance, that wine goes with cheese. Yes, mature port paired with stilton is sublime, and Vin Jaune wine and comte from the alpine French region of Jura have wonderful synergy. But spend enough time in the company of sprawling cheese platters that have been matched to conventional wine choices and a creeping sameness can emerge with tannin, acid and fruit flattening into one long, lactic blur. This is

   Feedback

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Not enough subject data for this period yet.