Learning about wine

If you’ve ever read a wine tasting note, you’ve no doubt encountered an extensive list of fruits, spices and other micellaneous items that are used to explain a wine. It’s …

What is fruit forward in wine? Wine tasting notes often include fruits, from apples to peaches and even bananas. But when you see this term, what does it mean for …

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, …