... 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, 2000 Pierre Usseglio Châteauneuf du...

Nights are drawing in and it’s time for comfort food, and comfort wine. De Bortoli’s Show Muscat Liqueur falls into that category. It’s a dark brown colour, with an amber edge. It smells of cooked raisins, and a spot of toffee. It’s sweet, very sweet and feels thick and gloopy in the mouth ... % alcohol, which warms and burns. This wine sells well and has won plenty of awards, but it was just...

Nights are drawing in and it’s time for comfort food, and comfort wine. De Bortoli’s Show Muscat Liqueur falls into that category. It’s a dark brown colour, with an amber edge. It smells of cooked raisins, and a spot of toffee. It’s sweet, very sweet and feels thick and gloopy in the mouth ... % alcohol, which warms and burns. This wine sells well and has won plenty of awards, but it was just...

Lange 2005 Pinot Noir: Holy crap. That's a good wine...

The New York Times has an excellent article [free registration required] about the whole sphere of the 100-point wine scoring system. Required reading for any wine enthusiast...

A fantastic buy at $13 a bottle, Toad Hollow's Erik's the Red is a massive, full bodied, and downright festive red wine. It is made up of 15 different grapes and may well be the perfect table wine for any occassion. It is fruity - with ripe...

The title of ‘Wine Tasting’ was a bit misleading. What Casa Ludovico held was a cuisine and wine experience. Most wine tastings are pretty similar. I expected an array of five or six wines, a few plates of bread and crackers, a bunch of people standing around talking quietly among themselves while...

Tomorrow (6/14/2005) a local Italian restaurant is having a wine tasting. I will be there to see what they have to offer. I believe there will be some more affordable wines involved although I know a few of the offerings will be rather expensive but I am hoping to find some values...

... on the wide topics of wine here given that it’s one of the central themes here, so I’ve added subcategory tags to the Wine category for Appellations & Vintages , Ohio Wine , Wine Blogs and Wine Science . I was thinking about adding a few more subcategory tags, such as Wine Law & Policy or Wine Events. My ... . Those two that I mention perhaps? A wine reviews tag separate from the general reviews category...

"Judging Australian wine shows is the closest I've ever come to hand-to-hand combat." So says wine writer Tim Atkin the Uk's The Observer: "No one actually exchanges punches, but the verbal fisticuffs can be brutal. If you're brought up to be polite and to consider someone else's point of view, the bare-knuckle opinions can come as a shock. 'I thought that wine was fucked, mate,' a fellow...