May 21, 2013

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Welcome to Jeremy Oliver, on Wine.

Greetings from Melbourne, capital of wine, food and culture in Australia, and where autumn is still clinging to its earlier ambitions of being at least as spectacularly hot as our recent record-breaking summer. But it’s also still dry, agonisingly and painfully so, which is something Australia has to get to grips with in a hurry. But as I have always said, if Australia was...

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May 21, 2013

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Cape Mentelle

I have been writing about wine since 1984, so it’s fair to say that my early days watching the wine industry coincided with Cape Mentelle’s emergence as a serious player. Its current re-appearance amongst Australian’s winemaking elite three decades later is no less impressive. I first came across Cape Mentelle and its founding winemaker, David Hohnen as an agricultural science...

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May 20, 2013

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No. 1 on China’s You Tube

As part of my wine educational activities in China, under the banner of The...

May 20, 2013

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Back to the future: Lake’s Fol...

Recently I was fortunate to be one of a small number invited to celebrate the...

May 20, 2013

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Drop of the Month

Con Moshos, a winemaking mate from my Roseworthy days and today the custodian...

May 20, 2013

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Slam of the Month

The other day, sitting around a table with friends at Quanjude Beijing Roast...

May 9, 2013

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Cellaring Tip #1 – Make sure y...

Why on earth would you buy several cases of a wine you won’t want to drink...