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Casey started Travelling Corkscrew in 2010 and has been wine blogging ever since. She has completed her WSET level 2 and 3 and is currently based on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. When she's not drinking wine and blogging, she runs an SEO & Google Ads company and hangs out with Mr Spittoon, her two kids and two furbabies.
Oh hello there Miss Chardonnay! This beauty is a sample we kindly received from Windfall Wine Estate (thank you!) in WA’s Geographe wine region. Julie Williams and husband Phil Hutton are the duo behind the brand and they place a large importance on sustainable and natural farming methods. In fact for the last 7 years they have…
Happy Wine Wednesday everyone! What are you poppin’ today? Last ‘Wine Wednesday’ we cracked into our Good Pair Days sample pack and we couldn’t wait to get stuck into this 2017 Empirica ‘Ebullient’ Sparkling Riesling from Castelli Estate Wines in WA’s Great Southern wine region.
Georgie Orbach 2019 ‘Cab Sav’ Thank you Georgie Orbach Wines for sending us this sample bottle of your newly released 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon to taste. We enjoyed it with a laidback weeknight dinner (it matched well with both our bbq and chocolate mousse dessert) and it was the perfect easy-drinking red to finish off a busy day….
Rosé and Netflix, it’s a pretty good combo if you ask me and it seemed to pair with Gotham very well 😉 This Menhir Salento Novementi Rosato comes from Salento in Italy. It’s made from the Negroamaro grape variety which is native to southern Italy (aka the ‘heel’ of Italy). Negro means black which makes…
Vermentino is where it’s at peeps. If you’re a newbie to this grape variety then this Empirica by Castelli Estate Wines 2018 Vermentino is a great one to start with. But buy at least 2 bottles as 1 bottle is definitely not enough. A big thanks to Castelli from the Frankland River in WA’s Great…
I don’t know who rights the tasting notes and copy for Heirloom Vineyards in South Australia, but it has to be some of the most interesting and enticing words I have seen written about wine! Heirloom are located in McLaren Vale, South Australia and was “conceived in vintage 2000, when a young winemaking student caught…