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Prawn and White Wine Masterclass

January 10, 2012 Latest News

    10 January 2012 The second Cellar Door Festival is taking place in Adelaide from 24 – 26 February and this year the masterclass schedule will be extended to include an SA King Prawn and White Wine Showcase Masterclass.   Chef Simon Bryant, formerly of the Hilton and also of The Cook and The Chef [...]

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Wines for Christmas

December 15, 2011 Wines

    Disclaimer:  I was sent the four wines by Wine Selectors. When Wine Selectors got in touch and asked me if I’d like to try some of their wines they didn’t really have to ask twice!  This was particularly the case because NOT ONE of the wines they offered to send was a Kiwi [...]

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Cabernet Day

September 13, 2011 Events

photo thanks to the Great Wine Adventure date: Thurs 1 Sept 2011 You may remember that late last year I attended the launch of the Qwoff Boys’ Great South Australian Wine Adventure. It’s obviously been a successful year for Justin & Andre because the wine adventure has gone national … that’s right, it’s now the [...]

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Grape vs Grain

August 16, 2011 Book Reviews

    I picked up a copy of Grape vs. Grain at a Clouston and Hall sale here in Adelaide. The book purports to take the reader on an exploration of the cultural and technological differences between wine and beer. Charles Bamforth, the author, is the Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences at [...]

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Kay Brothers Wine Dinner 17 August

August 1, 2011 Events

For quite a while now I’ve been meaning to get an event calendar up and running and I’ve finally done it! The first event listed is a Kay Brothers wine dinner coming up at Jam the Bistro on Wednesday 17 August, from 6:30pm.  The dinner costs $95 a head which is inclusive of 4 courses [...]

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Kersbrook Hill Shiraz 2005

July 2, 2011 Wines

Our household has been submerged in a fug of early winter colds for about 3 weeks – at one point, all three of us were ill at the same time which was fun. Needless to say, this put a significant dampener on our enthusiasm for eating out, cooking and drinking. I kid you not but [...]

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Rose Revolution

December 1, 2010 Events

There are plenty of internet based wine ‘initiatives’ around this summer … I’ve already written about the Great South Australian Wine Adventure and, in addition to this, we have the Summer of Riesling and SC Pannell’s All for One, to encourage us to drink Australian wine between the start of the new year and Australia [...]

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Great South Australian Wine Adventure

November 25, 2010 Events

A couple of weeks ago I received a mysterious invitation to the launch of the Qwoff Boys‘ next venture – complete with personalised link for RSVP and enigmatic clues.  Earlier this year I’d very much enjoyed participating in their Semillon tweet-up from the Landmark Australia tutorial so I figured that even though information was scanty [...]

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Burgundy Dinner at Edinburgh Hotel

May 30, 2010 Events

If you’re keen on a drink or two, you may well be interested in a forthcoming dinner at the Edinburgh Hotel, in Mitcham. On Tuesday 22 June, Eurocentric Wine (with some help from Wine Academy) will be hosting a meal in the hotel’s High Street Bar, featuring a selection of red and white Burgundies. Burgundy [...]

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Matt Skinner

November 15, 2009 comment

If you’re interested in wine as well as food it’s likely that you’re aware that Matt Skinner, Jamie Oliver’s head of wine, has found himself embroiled in controversy this last week or two.  The furore broke when New Zealand wine writer, Michael Cooper, reviewed The Juice 2010 and realised that, given publishing timescales, it wouldn’t [...]

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