terroir
Culture
Consecration Wine
Consecration Wine
" I made Versailles for my Court, Marly for my friends and Trianon for myself. "
Louis XIV, The Sun King
Versailles
The Grand Trianon is a French Baroque-style chateau set within its own park,...
Wine
Quid Pro Quo – WOW (Wine of the Week)
Quid Pro Quo Reserva
2018
Touriga Nacional / Petit Verdot
Alentejo, Portugal
From the team at Casa Santos Lima, this is a selection of their finest Touriga Nacional and Petit Verdot grapes, grown in the shale and...
Wine
Bouchard Pere et Fils Echezeaux Grand Cru 2018 -on the bench
Bouchard Pere et Fils Echezeaux Grand Cru 2018
The 2018 Vintage in Burgundy is often referred to as the ‘Heat Wave’ vintage, the passage of time has shown the wines to be both ripe and...
Culture
Courage, Endurance, Mateship, Sacrifice
Courage, Endurance, Mateship, Sacrifice
The Right Honourable
On the 25th of August 2024, ANZAC DAY, the Australian Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Anthony Albanese was in Papua New Guinea to give a speech, and... as fate...
Culture
When the Vintage is Over
When the Vintage is Over
Today -under enormous adversity it must be said- we picked the last grapes of the 2024 vintage, in Shan State Myanmar.
A miserly crop, but the fruit is mostly good, some...
Culture
Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards
Wynn Set to Host World's Biggest Chinese Wine Competition of International Standard at the "Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards"
Macau, 2024 — Wynn is pleased to welcome the world's foremost authorities and judges in Old and New...
Culture
Penfolds Day Papua New Guinea
Penfolds Day PNG
2024
The Stanley Hotel
Port Moresby
Penfolds is an iconic Australian winemaker founded in 1844 by Christopher Rawson Penfold, an English physician who emigrated to South Australia with his wife Mary Penfold. It is one...
Wine
Que Syrah, Shiraz
Que Syrah, Shiraz
From the roasted slopes of the Northern Rhone to the ancient vines of the Barossa Valley Syrah, (as it is known in France) or Shiraz, (as it is called in...