Only met him a couple of times, but just as influential a figure on Australian wine as the late Len Evans. Good obit here.
Yearly Archives: 2009
Having just blogged about luxury products, just read a press release from Penfolds about the ‘Luxury and Icon’ releases for 2009: * Grange 2004 RRP £170 * Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 RRP £60 * RWT Barossa Valley Shiraz 2006 RRP £50 * Yattarna Chardonnay 2006 RRP £40 * Magill […]
Penfolds new releases
Affordable luxury – what on earth does it mean? Just had an e-mail from a PR company proclaiming that their product (Prosecco since you ask) offers Affordable Luxury. I’m not complaining that they sent a 293-word press release as an attachment (although why do they bother?). And I’m not carping […]
Affordable luxury….
‘Yuck! I though it was going to be sweet!’ Sorry my darling, but no. You see, she loves sweet wines – she loves other wines too, but they wouldn’t get too many spaces in her desert island selection. So her reactions when she picked up a glass of something vaguely […]
Quelle couleur?
…probably appears somewhere in this article in Drinks Business. I hope it’s a reprint of a press release, rather than something a sentient member of staff has written. If some of the sentences are incomprehensible to normal people, I provide translation below… THEY SAY…E&J Gallo is seeking to attract more […]
Everything bad about wine-marketing-speak…
My first liquid love is wine, but in my youth, it was beer that ignited my passions. Not beer of the wife-beater variety, but beer that tasted of beer, as opposed to all that chill-filtered, ultra-smooth pap that people seem to inisist on pouring down their throats in unfeasibly large […]