Out of all the Perth wine festivals in 2014, I’m pretty sure City Wine was my favourite. In 2014 the festival made its debut and I am so glad it did. I had an absolute ball. That teamed up with the festivals convenient location, fantastic participating WA wineries and the fact that it wasn’t too…
Forget what you’ve heard. Chardonnay is not just what your Mother drinks. Chardy is the bloody bees knees of the wine world. It’s such a versatile grape that can be grown in warm and cold climates. It can be made into sparkling wines. It can be made both dry and sweet. And it can be…
As most of you know, I write the monthly wine event posts for Vine Collective – the Trip Advisor meets eBay for wine tourism in WA. I search high and low for the best events happening each month to let you know about them.
Sometimes when you visit a cellar door, it’s easy to forget how much heart and soul go into each and every single bottle of wine. To most people, it’s just booze – something that’ll get you a little bit giddy, bring a natural blush to your cheeks and give you liquid courage. Of course I…
***Unfortunately this event has been cancelled*** Honestly Perth, we are so darn lucky to have the Swan Valley on our doorstep. We are literally one of the closest major cities in the world to a wine region – it seriously doesn’t get better than that. All that delicious wine and local produce within a max…
Every day is a good excuse to celebrate the brilliance of wine! However I do love when globally the world spends a day celebrating one specific grape variety, giving it it’s time in the limelight that it deserves. Coming up on Friday 17th of April 2015 is the annual Malbec World Day, so it’d only be…
Opa! It’s an Eastern European way to say ‘cheers’. And by goodness did I say (yell) it a few times last Sunday. Yes I was just a little bit thrilled to be at the brand spanking new Little Black Dog Wines property in the Swan Valley. A huge thanks to Tash and family for inviting us along, we…
As most of you probably know, I fell in love with the Great Southern wine region of WA on my recent trip south (I’m actually still getting through my blog posts from the 4 day trip!) which is why I was extremely excited to be invited to the Perth launch of the IGA Taste Great…
I was away the weekend of the Sunset Wine festival, but I still wanted the TC to cover this awesome event having enjoyed Sunset Wine 2014 so much. Therefore I sent along Music Journalist and Blogger over at Toward Music, Jayde Ferguson, along in my place to experience the event and give us the run down. Check…