Good Cheer For Avl

AUSTRALIAN Vintage Limited, formerly McGuigan Simeon, has claimed that it and Australia's ravaged wine industry have "turned the corner".

10 Things I Don't Put On My Cv Michael Daly

Michael Daly is an event manager who handles the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival's the World's Longest Lunch (February 29, Flemington racecourse).

How Does Wine Get Its Colour?

HOW DOES WINE GET ITS COLOUR? Green and black grapes are used in the winemaking process and each have the same colour inside.

The Educator

Swirling a glass of red and standing in her well-stocked cellar, wine educator Sherryl Sherson looks very much at home.

Pure Blonde Fails To Stop Foster's Flop

Foster's boss Trevor O'Hoy has refused to tell the market how long it will take to lift his troubled wine business, or how much longer he will remain at the helm of the company, after revealing profit growth had slowed in the first half.

Hilltops Best New-style Red

THE Freeman 2003 Rondinella Corvina, about which I wrote last October 3, has won high praise from wine writer and Maurice O'Shea biographer Campbell Mattinson.

New Wine Campaign To Toast The Hunter's Top Drop

THE NSW wine industry will use the strength of Hunter semillon to remind the people of NSW about the quality of wines in their own backyard.

Wine Lesson 149

Sauvignon blanc can be pungent

From Fish To Wine, The Taste Of Darkness Grows Stronger

The Irresistible Inheritance Of Wilberforce By Paul Torday Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 308pp, $32.99

It's Time For The Pioneers To Wine And Shine

Grape-growing in Sydney is as old as the colony itself, writes Daniel Lewis, who traces six immigrants who helped sow the dream in 1838.

Wine Lesson 148

Not all white grapes need oak

New Toast To New England

THE Hunter has a new wine region on its northern doorstep.