The Bribie Winelander Oct 2019
Tags: Wine. Wineries. White. Red
I will be the first to admit I have a shocking memory for names and faces, there, a moment at Changi Airport when I bumped into a client I had...
WINELANDER – Sept – Oct
Tags: Wine. White. Red. Wineries. Bribie Island. Brisbane. SE Queensland. Australia
A few years back wine used to be packed by the dozen and most wineries used more or less the same size 750ml bottles....
The Bribie Winelander – Aug 2019
I always start off the weekend having a look at Des Houghton’s Quaff column in the Courier Mail and his recommendations which often would require something of a bank loan to try, however this...
The Bribie WINELANDER
The merry go round of the judging of wines around Australia has begun with the Royal Queensland Wine Show and it was a $15 Shiraz from Deep Woods Estate near Yallingup in Western Australia...
The Bribie Winelander July 2019
Tags: Wine. Wineries. Red. White. Australian. Queensland
A few weeks ago we noted the contribution that Mr Tom Angove made to the Australian wine industry when he invented the first wine cask in 1965 which...
The bribie Winelander May 2019
If you want to see the colour drain from a winemaker’s face just mention the word Phylloxera, this is an aphid-like root louse that destroys grapevines and devastated over 70% of Europe’s vineyards, notably...
The Bribie Winelander – May 2019
Tags: Wine. Wineries. White. Red
When thinking about many of the great wines Australian winemakers have made over the last two hundred years we tend to think of companies such as Penfolds, Yalumba, Orlando, etc....
The Bribie Winelander – May 2019
There is a phrase in life known as the Eureka moment or Aha moment when one has a sudden understanding of a previously incomprehensible problem or concept. I want you to imagine for one...
THE BRIBIE WINELANDER
Tags: Wine. White. Red. Wineries. Australian. Queensland. Brisbane.
As you may have gathered by now I enjoy a wine lifestyle, I have spent the last forty years or so making a living either standing in...
The Bribie Winelander – April 2019
Is organic the next big thing in wine production and what exactly does it mean? For a wine to claim it is grown organically it cannot have used any synthetic or artificial chemicals such...
