St Huberts The Stag has launched a new brand campaign live in Australia now until mid-March. ‘Long Live the Wild’ celebrates the roaming, restless spirit of the wild and those who live wild at heart. This exciting new Australian campaign features across out of home (billboards), social media, YouTube, Cinema and Kayo; also appealing to […]
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First taste of Penfolds’ new California wine collection
In a locked wine cabinet in Penfolds’ Shanghai office there’s a precious bottle of Grange from the 1953 vintage, the year President Xi Jinping was born. “It was intended as a gift for the President last year,” says Penfolds’ chief winemaker, Peter Gago. That didn’t happen, of course: Shanghai is one of many global cities the famously […]
TASMANIAN PINOT NOIR RELEASES
Pioneering Pinot Noir at Bream Creek Despite being the state with some of the earliest known vineyards in Australia (likely some existed in the early 1820s), Tasmania’s wine industry essentially disappeared for many decades. But a Frenchman inspired change on the Apple Isle in the 1950s, and it should come as no surprise being a fruit-producing region, that a group of pioneers revived grape […]
Australian Icon Release | Allocations Now Available
As Elderton celebrate 40 vintages this year, they are set to release the 2017 vintage of the Barossa icon, the Elderton Command Shiraz, as well as a special museum vintage of Ashmead Cabernet Sauvignon on 1st March. The Command vineyard, now 127 years old, an “Ancestor” block in the Barossa Old Vine Charter, consistently produces a wine of intense depth and concentration, yielding only […]
Painkiller
A twist on the Piña Colada, the Painkiller is a rich and fruity cocktail that stays true to its name: It will cure what ails you. Made with dark rum, pineapple juice, orange juice and cream of coconut, the drink was created in the 1970s at the Soggy Dollar Bar in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), where […]
GABS reveals the Hottest 100 beers of 2020
The Great Australasian Beer Spectapular (GABS) has once again reveal Australia’s favourite craft beer of the last year, with the 2020 Hottest 100 Craft Beers, and this year sees the ACT’s Bentspoke Brewery coming out on top with its Crankshaft beer. Last year’s winner, Stone & Wood Pacific Ale continues to resonate with Australia’s beer […]
Israeli Single Malt? Whisky De Mexico? The World’s Best Whiskies From Surprising Places
For most of my lifetime, whisky came from Scotland or Canada and whiskey Ireland, Kentucky or Tennessee. Yes, Japan made superlative versions, but for a long time they did not register on the radar here, and not so long ago when the craft distilling boom began, whiskies from places like the Hudson Valley seemed “exotic.” […]
Meet Mel Chester, Sutton Grange
Speaking with Mel from Sutton Grange in late Spring last year, she was heading into a busy bottling period, and getting all her ducks in a row for vintage 2021. A jill of all trades, she was offered the winemaker position as a 26-year-old, and oversees both the vineyard and winery management. A Len Evans Scholar, Gourmet Traveller […]