Pizza and Pinot night! We love making homemade pizzas and you can’t have pizza without wine right? On our latest pizza night we decided to crack into this Shaw & Smith ‘Incognito’ 2018 Pinot Noir. The grapes are from the Coal River Valley in Tassie.
Happy 10 weeks us! I don’t think I’ve ever appreciated my post-8pm wine as much as I have over the last 10 weeks (8pm is the little man’s bedtime). And this one is a beauty too! Both Mr Spittoon and I were gushing over it.
“Georgie’s collection references the pop-rock sounds of the 80’s – sophisticated labels with an underlying punk attitude.” Music and wine lovers you need to check out Georgie Orbach Wines. These wallet-friendly wines made from Riverina (NSW) fruit are fantastic for easy weekday drinking.
Tahbilk Old Vines 2017 Cabernet Shiraz Tasted: 14 June 2020 Ending the weekend on a high note with a taste of this newly released old vines 2017 Cabernet Shiraz from Tahbilk Winery in Central Victoria’s Nagambie Lakes region. Tahbilk are celebrating their 160th anniversary this year having been established in 1860! They have blocks of Shiraz vines…
BBQ wine! This Deakin Estate 2018 Shiraz from here in Victoria (Mildura on the Murray River) is the perfect quaffer for around the barbie. It’s easy drinking and super cost effective at only $10 a bottle.
Mr Spittoon was definitely the one pouring this red – look at all those drip marks on the label! This 2019 GSM is part of Taltarni Vineyards ‘Dynamic’ range – “The Taltarni ‘dynamic’ range of wines represents the style, taste and artistic expression of our winemakers.”. It retails for $26 and is made from Grenache 39%, Shiraz…
9 weeks and our 9th bottle of bubbles! We picked up this Champagne Duperrey 2012 Brut from Dan Murphy’s for $58.
“Hand-picked with fruit destemmed only. Then spent 13 days on skins whilst bring hand plunged. The wine was then aged in 50% new French oak puncheons, on lees for five months”. I love hearing about how a wine is made. There’s so much work that can go into what’s in our glasses. This Three Hills…
Last weekend, I was starting to get a little bit of Cabin Fever. The type when you have been cooped up inside for way too long and you are starting to miss your friends and family like crazy! To help shake it, I suggested to my partner in wine, Bryce, to take a trip out…