This past week I took a break from the day job to do one of my favorite things – tour a winery. Picture the scene; you slowly roll up an extended driveway to the winery estate passing vineyards on your left with the barking of the requisite winery dog and the picturesque scenery of Lincoln, [...]
Not sure if Billy Joel was contemplating the weather when writing that, but after this week’s early spring heat wave it’s hard to think of drinking anything but white wine until Labor Day. But what about that under appreciated pink style of wine, that’s got the cold and crisp drinkability of a white wine [...]
To answer this question, let’s start with “what’s up with corks?” Corks have been the industry standard for hundreds of years. By letting a small amount of oxygen into the bottle, the wine is allowed to slowly bottle age.
The main dis-advantage of corks is a tricky chemical called TCA. If you’ve never [...]
Keeping the name of the blog alive, I have come back from the splendors of the southern hemisphere to my stomping ground of Boston. The plan – get more involved in the local wine scene, as well as find an engineering job in alternative energies.
And although the blog is about following summer, we all need [...]
Okay winos, here’s a little trick I learned at 7:30 in the morning (it was a long session) while drinking an Australian Viognier with my wino roommates. One sniff into the glass I picked up the familiar rubber smell I have gotten in so many screw capped wines. My Italian friend promptly said… [...]
Needing a break from wine, our first week in New Zealand was packed full of hiking, beer drinking, and driving through the picturesque and changing landscapes of the south island. Our first wine stop was to visit a friend working a harvest in the Waipara Valley just north of Christchurch. We were greeted [...]
Since wireless has been sparse, and its hard to impossible to find an Internet café that lets you use USB ports, my posts are going to be limited. So the new plan is to write as I go, and post everything I have whenever I can!
The road trip from Adelaide to Melbourne was successful, [...]
Quick Facts:
From Adelaide, South Australia to Melbourne, Victoria.
The People: One American, one Italian, and one Frenchman – All Winos.
The Cars: 1985 Nissan Pulsar and a 1980 Holden Cruiser Van.
The Arsenal: 60 bottles of wine from Margarette River, Langhorne Creek and Coonawarra.
Just over 24 hours into the road trip to Melbourne, and nestled into tonight’s hotsel [...]
It started at six weeks, soon dwindled to ten days remaining, and now it’s down to hours. Twenty more hours, two more days of work, and much awaited freedom will be upon me. One of the most difficult harvests in the past few years in South Australia is nearly over, and after a [...]
This blog was inspired by some of the strangest weather I have ever seen in my life. In fact, as I write this the power at the winery has gone down, as well as the power in half of Adelaide (thank God for laptop batteries!). This morning it was raining, not-raining, hot, cold, [...]
