Without further ado I present Monchavo . The truth is out there. We are but a minnow to their blue whale!

Almost there…. I wonder what Gary will post in celebration of number 1000. Will it be a Rousseau, or maybe something from his beloved Hunter….

A bottle of 2005 Stoneleigh pinot noir arrived the other day and I did a double take as I unpacked it. I thought for a minute they had bottled the wine under cork, but no, it is a screwcap. It is is labelled as Stelvin Luxe with >> instructions to ...

The more observant readers may have noticed a new category - wine of the month - on the left hand side of your screen. For the past couple of months I have selected a wine (multiple when it is too tight to make a call) for each of three categories ...

I could never wait to open up my presents as a little boy and I am no better now…Winorama is celebrating it’s first birthday. Woooohoooo. We turn the big one nothing on Saturday 21 October and what a year it has been. I kicked things off with a review of ...

I am slowly adding a new level of taxonomy to the site that will enable tasting notes to be filtered by grape variety or even just by colour. If you scroll down the page you will see this taking shape on left hand sidebar below the tasting notes section. This ...

Right then. I have downloaded the entries and worked up a spreadsheet containing the guesses for Room A and Room B for each of our lovely contestants. The formula for deciding the winner is - Magic Number =ABS(384-R1)+ABS(628-R2) where R1 and R2 are the guesses for each room. The closest ...

To celebrate our first birthday we have put together a mighty selection of Winorama’s top rating wines for the year. These wines have all been graciously supplied by the wineries involved and we would like to thank them not only for their generosity but also for their support of the ...

Discussing blog fixes

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