Learning about wine

Have you ever been looking for a bottle of white wine in the bottle shop and found both Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio on display? How about at a restaurant …

There are many ways to talk about wine, seriously! This is why it can be so confusing. The terms are endless and vary on a scale of ‘say it as …

We tend to focus our wine learning on the old world of wine, so you’d be forgiven for not knowing much about Australian wine. I want to help you uncover …

Pinot Noir is a grape that has a certain prestige about it, and the notoriously high prices make it sometimes seem a little too inaccessible to the everyday drinker. But …

Aging wines tends to be romanticized with thoughts of wine cellars and wine collections. So it’s not surprising that most of us think that wine will improve with age. But …

Riesling is one of the noble grapes, but it often has a bit of a stigma of being only for sweet wines. However, this simply isn’t true, and there is …

Perfumed might seem better suited to your beauty cabinet and not something you want to find in your wine glass. But this wine term can be a positive thing to …

Marsanne is a French grape variety uncommon outside the Northern Rhone region. But it is seriously underrated and produces white wine full of character and complexity! In fact, in Australia, …

Tinny might seem like something you would never find in a wine tasting note, and certainly, nothing that you would want to find in your glass. I think it’s better …

Carignan is a wine variety that used to be the most common vine planted in France, but now most drinkers have never heard of it. But this doesn’t mean that …