Changing the site theme and upgrading the operating software to enable some added features on the site. Should be near complete by tomorrow. Keep your subscription to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/ozwineshow) as is and if any repeat downloads occur, just cancel them. For the next day or two that is - ...

Mick and I will be at Plonk Oz this Saturday and Sunday if anyone wants to meet up. We'll be recording random stuff and would love to chat with listeners, fellow bloggers, etc on or off the mic.

Last friday, lightning during heavy Sydney rain payed my router, laptop and external hard-drive a visit. In my own defence, there had been no other lightening strikes for about 4 hours previously. Consequently it's all fried and I'm waiting for new gear to arrive. I may have also lost a ...

Just a little housekeeping item to let you know about. I've added a new page to this blog that provides a list of contributors (some more frequent than others) along with brief bios. I thought it a little silly to have a huge "About" page that was only about me. I'm not that much of an egomaniac (regardless of what you may have heard). Then again, I will include my new "wine writer" picture...

Spent the weekend in the Hunter with my girlfriend and some friends. I'll put up a list of some of my pics during the week but wanted to vent now. I thought i got marketing from the cellar door - it's a chance for people to spend the weekend seeing ...

Some talk on the net today about the phenomenon of "supertasters". Called such for their super tongues which are endowed with more taste buds at the front. I read about it first at vinography but it trails back to an article in the NY Sun. It seams that 20 to ...

by Tessa Brown, new Oz Wine Show contributing author. Elevating myself before nine in the morning on a weekend day is, at best, challenging. Performing same on four hours’ sleep, when Friday night ended at three am after the following: 1997 Billecart Salmon Elisabeth Rosé, 1983 Roederer Blanc de Blancs, ...

An old colleague and a new friend compose our latest dynamic duo of Vagablond contributors. Welcome to Lanny Udell and Sue Frause… Like me, Lanny Udell is a versatile copywriter. Unlike me, she is a Minnesota native, lived in NYC for many years working for a variety of ad agencies, then made her leap...

OzWineShow #5 features an interview with Mark Baulderstone who is VP of Riedel Glas for Asia Pacific and Middle East. Listen in for an in depth tasting of the same wine from three different glasses. I must say i went in hoping to get scientific answers but was so blown ...

The interviews this episode include Roy Moorfield, who founded the event 27 years ago and Keppell Smith, owner and winemaker at Savaterre . These guys were most accommodating with being interviewed on the spur of the moment and both are clearly very passionate about what they do. Keppell produces some ...