Today on the blog we welcome the lovely Jody Ovenden from Celestine Retreat in Denmark, Western Australia. She shares with us some fab spots to check out in Denmark for wine lovers and foodies.
Please note: Travelling Corkscrew was provided 2 complimentary tickets from Wine & Food Events WA (thank you!!). All words and opinions are our own. You know you’ve had a fantastic night out when you’re nursing a hangover (here are some great wine hangover cures by the way) and your partner is still in bed, sound asleep….
There’s one cellar door I have visited twice already here in Gippsland and that’s Narkoojee in Glengarry. From Sale it’s about a 40-minute drive, however, it’s only about 15 minutes from Traralgon town centre (which makes it about 2 hours from the Melbourne CBD). Narkoojee is the 17th out of the 600 cellar doors in…
As you guys know, I collaborate with various wine companies, brands and industry people so I can bring you the latest and best products and news from the wine world. One of my recent adventures was working my way through a case of samples from the team at Wine Selectors and I must say, they…
Chardonnay Day 2018 is just around the corner (it’s the Thursday before Memorial Day (U.S.) each year thanks to the creator Rick Bakas). So, to help celebrate I wanted to share 18 Chardonnay’s I have tasted recently that’ll be perfect to drink on #chardonnayday.
Naturally, as soon as we got to Sale, Victoria, I had to Google what was the closest winery. The first result to pop up was Avon Ridge Vineyard which is about a 20-minute drive from Sale and about 50 minutes from Traralgon. This was our first Gippsland winery visit and is number 16/600 Victoria cellar…
I’ve now been living in the Gippsland wine region (Victoria, Australia) for a little over 2 months. It’s definitely is quite a different experience to our old home in Perth’s Swan Valley wine region. With the Gippsland wineries a lot further apart, it means we typically spend Sunday afternoon’s ticking a new one off the list….
If you follow the Travelling Corkscrew on Facebook or Instagram, you may have seen I recently took over the Travelling Corkscrew’s Instagram Stories while I was in Pemberton, in Western Australia’s Southern Forest region, about 3 hours south of Perth.
Today on the blog we welcome back the lovely Nicola Heyes who has recently got back from an amazing wine tasting tour of Provence in the South of France. It certainly brought back memories of my time backpacking and wine-ing my around the South of France back in 2011. I wish I could jump on a…