By Mei, http://familystyles.wordpress.com/
Zamorano cheese with quince paste and persimmon
Thursday’s Rambling Restaurant was a boozy festival of wine tasting and matching canapes – so many glasses of alcohol that I’m amazed I could stand up straight long …
In 2009 Howard Park was asked to join Australia’s First Families of Wine (AFFW) a multi-million-dollar venture to help resurrect the fortunes of the $6 billion industry highlighting the quality and diversity of Australian wine. First Families chairman and Tahbilk chief executive Alister Purbrick said: “We desperately need …
By Simon Farr
It really is just so much more convenient taking a light plane to get from Agulhus (the actual Southern most point in Africa) to Malagas the lonely outpost at the end of the Breede River that is the home of Sijnn’s Vineyard. There is a road, well not a real one that you or I would recognise, but rather a series of dirt …
Just a quick one as many of you have asked where we’re at with the Wahaca/Bibendum Chilli growing challenge. As the cold weather has set in, life has become tougher for the fledgling heat bombs. Their needs have changed, they might need more space and warmth, and the quality of the light just ain’t what it was.
Despite all that the plants in this little …
More than ever I find that my friends and I are thinking about the vagaries of food and wine matching… so much so that I even presented on this very topic at the Rambling Restaurant last Thursday (poor people…). Well first of all I think it’s a pretty inexact science. It’s the (newly) famous 10:80:10 rule – 10% of matches will be disastrous, the …
By Emma-Jane Bailey
Heavenly Scotch Eggs at the Harwood
When my brother first recommended I try a Scotch Egg at the Harwood Arms, I balked. For many years I had an aversion to eggs in any form and only recently have I overcome this and can now face them again – scrambled, poached, fried…though I’m still not sure …
By Rebecca Gibb, www.rebeccagibb.com
Bio Bio in Chile
Bio Bio is a newcomer to the international wine scene and the most southerly winery in Chile, Vina Corpora’s Veranda, is the biggest player in the region by a mile. This is Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc country and there are interesting things happening with Pinot Noir that …
by d’Arenberg
Our annual Growers’ Dinner is a highlight on the McLaren Vale calendar
Each year, in January, before the craziness that is vintage kicks off, Chester and d’Arry host all of our growers and their partners to a special dinner at the winery. We’ve quickly learnt that while our friends main talent might be growing fantastic grapes they are also seasoned party …
I spluttered my proverbial cornflakes all over my computer screen when I caught up with Neal Martin’s latest Wine Journal exploits this morning. He was reporting on the worst tasting ever…rather proudly I might add, for such an inauspicious occasion!
As well as being the masterminds behind London’s best wine shop tasting experience, The Sampler in Islington, Jamie Hutchinson and wife Dawn, must have been …
Well it definitely helped anyhow! A couple of years ago a friend of mine was trying to raise money for a triathlon in which she was partaking, and badgered me to buy some raffle tickets. Now, I’m not one to get involved in all these charity sporting occasions so I thought it was only fair to donate a fiver for …
