Filed under: Wine , Books , Australia The Tasmanian Living Writers Week is running over the 11th to the 20th August. The organisers have organised, as the do, several statewide food and wine events to accompany the bookfest. There are the usual literary lunches and dinners there is a session called Words Food and Wine where Tasmanian wine writers and local winemakers will speak about making words...

.’ ‘Absolutely !’ Yuck! Writing about wine sure brings out the clichés but I reckon reporters, copywriters and publicists easily outgun wine writers in over-spicing their paragraphs with hyperbole. A little while back, I ran the word wine - combined with some of my least favourite psychobabble words ... empowered when I’m making wine. I’m passionate about it. I have a commitment to quality and have...

I’ve been asked to write an occasional educational article by the folks over at Openmarket Wine and they have posted my first effort today. Some of the articles will be cross-posted here and I won’t be doing any wine recommendations on their site. Openmarket Wine has an interesting business model ... expect this will not be the only offsite writing gig I will be doing to promote Winecast...

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...