By Rob Pickard
Based in the Murray Darling region, just north west of Victoria, Deakin Estate create classic varietal expressions, which are fruit focused, easy drinking and fantastic value for the high quality on offer.
A few reasons for such high quality here can be pinned on such a dedicated Deakin team, lead by one of Australia’s best winemakers, Dr Phil Spillman. The other …
Dr Phil Spillman, chief winemaker at Australia’s Deakin Estate, was in town yesterday and we met up for a tasting, chat and dinner up the road at Odettes. Phil is pretty honest about his work. He’s not trying to replicate a Montrachet or boutique Pomerol. Instead he quietly goes about his job makes commercially successful, accessible Chardonnay and Merlot that people want to drink and can regularly afford. He’s one of the unsung heroes…
By Jo Jericho,
Vineyards at Deakin Estate
The BBQ is an Australian rite of passage that emerged out of the halcyon days of the 1960s. It was the dawn of dining in the backyard and the only permissible time a man cooked. It became a ritual passed down from father to son and you didn’t complain when dad cooked the snags …
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 …
We’ve reached a crucial stage in the build up (why build up, but count down? Oh well…) to the UK’s largest wine event in the calendar, the London International Wine fair (LIWF), next week at Excel. The integrity of our pants is under threat from the sheer anticipation. Seriously! If we can negotiate this tricky stage then it will be plain sailing from then on won’t it…?
But why …
