The Session Diaries
Sep 10, 2020
Game of Rhones Series Finale Offer
I first wrote a GAME OF RHONES retail offer for the Prince Wine Store in Melbourne in 2013. It was always the most po...
Apr 17, 2019
Wine & Album of the Month: Crimson Pinot Noir & The Court of the Crimson King
Ata Rangi 'Crimson' 2016 and King Crimson 'In the Court of the Crimson King'. Lots of imitators. No equals. Ata Rang...
Mar 1, 2019
Musings: KISS THE TOAD - IRISH WHISKEY DONE DIFFERENTLY
...This first expression has demonstrated that they know their brand, they know their market and they know their booze. Sky’s the limit...
Feb 11, 2019
Fear, Loathing, Dinners & Tasting: Barbera Vagabond Warrior
...temperatures have been soaring past 30 degrees and beyond on a typical Melbourne day, and we are about to have wild boar pasta and red wine.....
Feb 11, 2019
Musings: Hattori Hanzō Katana-na-na-na
...one industry expert wonderfully observed it as costing "the same as a Maserati"
Feb 11, 2019
Fear, Loathing, Dinner & Tasting: 150th Anniversary - Bests Great Western
....the 1997 also looks fantastic. Like some humans, Riesling gets more eccentric and wily with age...
Feb 11, 2019
Fear, Loathing, Dinner & Tasting: Guigal takes me to La La land
...These three wines have received 100 points from Robert Parker a whopping 28 times between them...
Feb 11, 2019
Wine & Album of the Month: Valdiguie & Doolittle
.....this monkey's gone, to heaven.....
Feb 11, 2019
Brash Higgins of the McLaren Vale
..."a biological aging technique used in Sherry" (I helpfully add to the group). "Not exactly, more like the Jura region of France", says Brad cheerfully to chuckles from my companions....
Feb 11, 2019
Beatyard 2018: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Nautical Boogie
...they are used to playing for people who have been rolling around in the mud for three days and are generally quite certifiable before they attend KKC’s now legendary Valhalla of debauchery...
Sep 3, 2017
Wine & Album of the Month: Stings Wine!
Tenuta il Palagio 'Message in a Bottle' & The Police Regatta de Blanc. Yes, Sting makes a wine in Tuscany and th...