Introducing the ultimate party pleaser, d’Arenberg The Cadenzia 2009. Aussies may be celebrating the holidays grilling burgers on the beach, but at least Australian producer d’Arenberg has parcelled up a Chateauneuf-du-Pape style red, packed with cranberries and spice to keep us smiling this chilly winter.
By Chester Osborn, www.darenberg.com.au
After the rain of late March, consistent sunny April days in the mid twenties, came as a welcome relief. Disease pressure remained high throughout, but the grapes were back in ripening mode, and fruit started rolling across the weigh bridge once again.
Botrytis was spotted in some vineyards, mainly in the areas that received the most …
By Gareth Groves
Australia’s McLaren Vale wine region is under threat from a proposed new development that would turn 177ha of land into a commercial centre with 1,200 residential homes – despite the fact the site has just been indentified as one of the most exciting for wine production in the region.
The McLaren Vale generates nearly Aus$1 billion in wine and …
by Alex Bazeley
There’s a new blogger in town at Bibendum. Alex Bazeley, an ex-Oddbins Manager now a member of our Off Trade team, recently spent a year touring the vineyards of the Southern Hemisphere…lucky chap!
When he was away he wrote the excellent blog www.winetraveller.net. Now he’s back, we are hoping he will carry on blogging and write some articles for Bibendum Times. Here’s a taster of the Wine Traveller blog all about Alex’s …
by Luke Tyler
Beach group shot
A selection of the world’s most powerful wine journalists, buyers and educators, including Oz Clarke and Robert Joseph, converged on McLaren Vale in South Australia yesterday for the Wine Flight Reunion Tour 2010.
44 guests from the United Kingdom joined the two week tour of Australia’s premier wine regions. In McLaren Vale they attended …
