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Three nights with us this November, and two winemakers who flew a long way to be here. Richie Harkham at Deviate on the 1st and Cygnet Bar on the 3rd. Steve Tonella at South Bridge Réserve on the 3rd, complimentary tasting 5–7pm. Then G
In 1972, a man with a Bordeaux surname and a Lafite Rothschild father went looking for the best place on earth to grow Cabernet. He was told to look everywhere. Two years and four continents later, Bernard Portet stopped in a cool, sheltered corner o
You don't expect the first thing you notice at a Rioja bodega to be a wind turbine. It stands over the vineyard at Moreda and generates roughly twice the power the winery needs — the surplus goes back to the grid. Carlos Bujanda, who founded t
Three producers, and one of them isn't from Champagne at all. Cattier have been in Rilly-la-Montagne since 1763. Virginie Taittinger carries the family name but works on her own terms, across a handful of selected sites. And then there's Roebuck, fr
Third Hunter producer in a row, and the oldest by a long way. In 1963 a Sydney hand surgeon planted Cabernet in the Hunter Valley. The industry thought it was a mistake, and the name they gave it stuck. Sixty years on, same vineyard, same two wines
Richie Harkham does very little to his wines, and that's the point. Wild ferments, no fining, no filtration, and around 20,000 bottles a year from a small winery in the Hunter Valley. The Aziza Chardonnay is named for his grandmother, who made wine
Most California wine was planted in the last forty years to grow what sells. Underneath it sits an older California — vineyards from the 1880s with thirty-odd varieties in the same block, planted by growers who fermented the lot together and ne
Four generations of Tonellas farmed Rutherford fruit and sold it to other people's wineries. Steve was the first to keep it. Joseph Ponti came over from Italy after the 1906 earthquake and ended up at Beaulieu, staying 43 years — long enough t
Hunter Valley has a bit of a rep problem. You'll often hear "big Shiraz" or "gotta sit on that Semillon for another fifteen years". Angus Vinden isn't making either of those. He grew up on his parents' vineyard, went off to stud
In 1971, David and Ginny Adelsheim planted Pinot Noir outside Newberg — before Oregon had figured out it could grow. Fifty years later, the Chehalem Mountains is one of the most respected addresses in American Pinot, and Adelsheim helped write
Today is International Pinot Noir Day. Naturally, we're pouring something significant. A pioneer estate, a considered winemaker, and fifty years of intentional viticulture. Swipe through — and come find them in the shop. Richard Sanford took
🍷 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍 πŽπ… 𝐓𝐇𝐄 πŒπ€π‚ 🍷 𝐌𝐚𝐜 π…π¨π«π›πžπ¬ 𝐒𝐬 π›πšπœπ€ 𝐒𝐧 π’π’π§π πšπ©π¨π«πž, bringing with him the wines that have made him one of the Yarra Valley's most respected voices. A true champion of site and season, Mac has spent years