‘And remember, we’ve got people round this evening….’ The sign-off from her indoors and she set off out off doors hung over the kitchen like the aftermath of an evening on Old Peculier and kebabs. Tidy up all those wines, in other words. So down the sink went the remains […]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
To the roster of excellent Swartland wineries, we can now add a new name – Mullineux Family Wines. It’s owned and run by Chris and Andrea Mullineux, with business input from wine nuts Keith Prothero and Peter Dart, and the first releases, from the 2008 vintage, have just arrived in […]
I’m tellin’ you, Mullineux
We’ll get to Chile in a moment, but I’m kicking off with New Zealand. I first visited the Land of the Long White Cloud in 1995 (I know because I came back from the trip with a rather useful blue zip-up bag and a polo shirt, now covered in various […]
Good old-fashioned Chilean wine
You’d expect wines called Toro to be big, beefy and bullish. And these reds made from 100% Tempranillo (aka Tinta de Toro) from a region to the west of the more famous Ribera del Duero usually lives up to such a billing. If you like big, meaty wines to go […]
Toro, Toro, Toro!
It’s an odd day here. Been inside most of the time but had to pop out around lunchtime on an errand. It’s quite bright and everywhere is so incredibly green at the moment. It would have been a perfect day to sit outside tasting a couple of 2008 rosé wines […]
Rosé, Rose B
Currently sitting in the domestic airport in Buenos Aires waiting to fly to Salta and then travel by road up to Colomé where there are what the owners (the Hess Collection) claim are the highest vineyards in the world. Are they the highest? Colomé’s neighbour (and former owner) Raul Davalos […]