It’s always a good event when you say you’re going to ‘go for an hour’ and then 3.5 hours later you actually leave. Last night I attended the Swan Valley & Perth Hills Cellar Door in the City event and I have to admit, I came across some rather lovely gems!
For me, there’s two foods that are particularly ‘Easter’ for me: hot cross buns and chocolate, mountains and mountains of chocolate. I love to slightly grill the hot cross buns and then slather them with lashings of butter and well with the chocolate, I’ll take it any which way 😉 With Easter only mere days…
I finally have had a moment to finish this blog post as we actually visited Edwards Wines in Margaret River last year and what a beautiful spot it is! It was our first stop on our way back to Perth on the Sunday morning and we showed up eagerly at the cellar door just as…
The cellar door barely opens for 6 months out of 12 months in the year. Each year the new wine is released on the 1st of August after being aged for 2 years in the cellar and then once it’s sold, the cellar door closes back down for the year.
Don’t let them tell you hot climate wines are unfashionable” Is what interstate judge, Huon Hooke told us at the 2015 Singapore Airlines Swan Valley Wine Show Awards Dinner last week. I agree 100% as at the end of the day us as consumers should be drinking what we think tastes good. If we all liked…
You may have seen last week I popped up a post titled 6 Commonly Misused Wine Terms – Are you making these mistakes?. The post literally went off and straight away everyone was asking about other wines terms. All the wine and grammar geeks wanted more (that’s you Victoria)! So here I am delivering the much-anticipated…
Mann 2012 Brut Sparkling I haven’t had the chance to visit the Mann winery yet, I typically stock up from Chateau Guildford where I bought this bottle for around the $30 mark. The 2012 Brut is made from Cabernet Sauvignon grapes so it is a blush style bubbles which is made in the traditional French…
In the past couple of months I have drank at least a dozen different wines from the Heathcote Wine Region in Victoria, Australia. And I drank them all from the comfort of my own couch! For my birthday in January my parents decided to give me an AMAZING present that any wine lover would drool…
Our own mini-degustation… I have been very selfish, I have been putting off writing this post for sometime because I have perhaps stumbled across the Swan Valley’s best-kept secret. Fillaudeau’s Café Restaurant is located at the Pinelli Estate Vineyard in the Swan Valley. Manu, the French Chef behind the amazing food and his wife Jasmin…