Unfortunately I was out of the country over the Sunset Wine weekend this year so fellow wino, Ralph headed along with his wine squad to check it out. The weather may have been a bit up and down, but that didn’t stop the dedicated wine lovers out there like Ralph! A big thanks to CMS events…
A year ago Mr. Spittoon and I made our first trip down to the Great Southern wine region. We spent a long weekend in Denmark and loved it! To us the region reminded us of New Zealand with the rolling hills, coastline and of course because of all the green. If we could we’d be…
I’m a big fan of the Wine Folly team and the way they share their excellent wine knowledge with the world. I was lucky enough to interview the one and only Madeline Puckette last year and when I heard she was producing a physical wine book with Justin Hammack, well I just had to have…
For so long I have been meaning to check out Little Guildford (opposite from the Rose & Crown Pub in Guildford) as I’d heard their brekky’s were divine. So a couple of weeks ago we finally made it for breakfast. I am happy to say, it was as good as I had heard but it…
There’s always a slight worry when returning to a restaurant which you loved so much the first time that it may not be so good the second time. Mr. Spittoon and I had dinner at Stewarts at Brookleigh in the Upper Swan back in 2013 and loved it! Last week our soon to be new neighbours suggested we…
? You may not realise it, but the atmosphere around you when drinking a wine can impact what you think and feel about a wine. Adding music to the mix, completes the sensory experience of a wine. As you know, you use your sight, smell and taste buds to determine what you think of the…
As you may have seen on my Facebook page, last week I started a free online wine course through the University of Adelaide called Wine101x The World of Wine. Now I’m not much of a reader as I tend to get sidetracked by everything else bar what I am supposed to read (‘bar’ being the exact…
Every day is a good excuse to celebrate the brilliance of wine! However I do love when globally the world spends a day celebrating one specific grape variety, giving it it’s time in the limelight that it deserves. Coming up on Friday 17th of April 2015 is the annual Malbec World Day, so it’d only be…
I don’t know about you, but accommodation can make or break a holiday in my opinion. There was the bed bug incident in Florence, the sweltering heat and no aircon in Mallorca and then there was the magnificent infinity edge pool overlooking the beach in our own villa in Oman and the über cool make…