Organic wines are becoming more and more popular by the day. In the wine aisles of our local bottle shops we are now seeing the terms; organic, biodynamic, preservative free and natural wine floating around. But what do they mean? Here are some simple definitions to get you started: Organic wine: Means the wine is made by…
Vine Collective is the Trip Advisor & Urbanspoon for wine lovers in Western Australia (and soon to be the eBay for WA wine too with its eCommerce side to come!). It’s a website with bucket fills of information on WA wine regions, wines and wineries. Alongside consuming the information on the wine regions of Western…
I can’t think of a more perfect way to spend a Sunday than wrapped up in warm clothes in a room full of oak barrels full of wine and tasting my way through 12 different wines and all before the clock strikes midday! I was very lucky to be invited along (thank-you Haley!) to this…
Not only do I love wine, but I love to accessorize my wine collection too. I don’t know how many hours I have spent online browsing different online wine shops and wine accessories online. I mean seriously, can a girl really have too many corkscrews? Never! Recently I was introduced to the new eBay Collections…
Recently a couple of lovely ladies wrote on my Facebook page asking what ideas i have for recycling wine bottles for practical uses around the home. I thought I would do the subject justice and dedicate an entire post to it as I have to admit I am definitely a wine bottle hoarder. Some are…
Cellaring: To ‘cellar’ a wine means to a store a young wine until the point the wine is at its peak drinking period (or you just can’t wait any longer!). Personally I can’t cellar wine for the life of me. I just get too excited and I can’t resist. I really need to lock it…
PLEASE NOTE: The School of Wine is under new management – Find out more here. Disclosure: I was invited along to The Wonderful World of Wine free of charge to experience the class & expand my wine knowledge further. Christina Pickard is a wine educator and wine writer. Like myself she has her Intermediate and…
Claire Holloway is a young Perth woman who has given up her well-paid FIFO job of 6 years to follow her wine dreams. Claire began work at Houghton’s Winery in the Swan Valley at the beginning of the year as part of the Vintage 2014 team. Along the way she is writing a very cool…
Disclosure: The Travelling Corkscrew was hosted with compliments of Voyager Estate. This will be part 1 of 3 blog posts on Voyager Estate as I literally spent 5 hours at this fantastic Margaret River winery venue and each part of my day really deserves it’s own time in the limelight! Voyager Estate is a magnificent…