The Qantas Wine Awards are Western Australia’s most prestigious wine show which has been running since 1978. I was completely blown away to be invited along by the lovely team at Evans & Tate to the Awards Dinner at the Hyatt Regency in Perth. The night was full of glitter and glam as the winners of…
World-renowned Master of Wine, Jancis Robinson once said that the Swan Valley makes the best Verdelho in the world. I completely agree! Viva Verdelho is the annual Swan Valley celebration of the Verdelho grape variety. Originally from Portugal the Verdelho grape thrives in the warm weather of the Swan Valley. It is a realitively straight…
Spring is in the air and I’m in the mood for wine! I have to admit I feel like wine 365 days a year but there is just something about those longer & warmer days that set my taste buds on hyper-wine-drive. So here are some of favourite wines to be drinking this Spring: New…
An event not to missed! Seriously, great wine, fantastic food in the beautiful Swan Valley – what’s not to like? If you do anything in the Swan Valley this year, Viva Verdelho should be on your list. This weekend on Sunday the 10th of November twenty Swan Valley wine producers will showcase their best Verdelho’s…
Wine, food, sunshine… What more can one ask for? This weekend I was at UnWined – WA’s Boutique Wine & Food Show in Subiaco. I sipped, I swirled, I drank… And I ate and drank even more. Too many goodies under one bright blue Perth sky. If you didn’t make it yesterday, get your A…
10:30am on a Saturday morning and I am sampling some of the new sparkling wine at Sittella Winery in the Swan Valley. Such a hard life! This is what I do to bring the latest wino news to all of you! This past Saturday Sittella held a Sparkling Wine Workshop followed by a 3-course lunch….
Being a seasoned wine festival goer I have picked up on some handy tips and tricks along the way to make sure a day out at a wine festival is fantastic (and that I can still stand at the end of it!). Here’s my guide to surviving and wine festival: Water! It goes without saying really….
Hey Perth! I hope you are all planning on visiting the Good Food & Wine show this weekend at the Convention & Exhibition Centre, as it is $36 well spent! I decided to go yesterday on the Friday so i could get a head start and find out, or should I say ‘taste out’ the…
I just loved the electrifying fizz of the two put together… Jezebelle is a trendy little tapas type bar in the historic town of Guildford, a 20 minute drive from Perth City. Recently Jezebelle have teamed up Rockcliffe wines from Denmark, West Australia to hold wine dinners. These wine dinners are aimed at showcasing how food and wine…