Over twenty years ago, I was spending a pleasant Sunday afternoon at the National Gallery of Victoria, slowly meandering through an exhibition of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. The exhibition also happened to feature...

  The Northern Harvest Across Europe, the month of August signals the readying for the new wine grape harvest, which will commence sometime in the latter weeks of the sign of Leo and for some, continue...

    As a mechanical engineer, Rick Kinzbrunner was used to working with finite angles and calculating in minute degrees; then, sometime during the early 1970’s he decided the numbers were no longer stacking up; new,...

  Beechworth is a small Victorian town with a population of approximately 3,000 people. The township itself is picturesque and striking with its old settlement buildings made of local stone and granite, perched precariously on...

    Leonardo Di Vinci, (1452 – 1519) is widely regarded as the quintessential renaissance man, a genius, a polymath, a master painter, sculpture, engineer, inventor and much, much more. He is considered to have possessed...

  Pinot Noir is the ultimate Diva of the wine world: alluring, sensual, erotic, complex, temperamental, infuriating, demanding and bewitching. Joel Fleischman of Vanity Fair describes pinot noir as "the most romantic of wines, with...

  Billionaire wine magnate, Bernard Magrez is a force to be reckoned with in the world of wine; he is the owner of several dozen vineyards across France, including four Grand Cru Chateaux in Bordeaux. Margrez’s...

  When we talk about wine styles we are talking about the sensory qualities of the wine, we are describing how it looks, smells and tastes. Wines made from different grape varieties across a broad spectrum...