Food. Wine. Melbourne.
If you say ‘Gamay’ aloud, it sounds more like a complicated croquet manoeuvre than a grape variety. From the same area of France where the far sexier-sounding Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are grown, Gamay has long been maligned as an inferior grape, so much so that most people have never heard of it. Fortunately, this […] Read more…
With my first print article hitting the shelves of your local newsagency this week (Nourish Magazine, November Issue), it seemed appropriate, and long overdue, to publish the story that won the Negociants Working with Wine Writing competition last year – the catalyst for me to start writing professionally. This story was first published in the […] Read more…
Not only was I a finalist in a well respected wine competition, I won the writing prize. The entire competition was an incredible experience. I attended seminars by some of the most respected winemakers in the world, surrounded by Australia’s best and brightest sommeliers and wine buyers. The competition culminated in a magical night of […] Read more…
When life gives you lemons, the best way forward is to make a batch of tangy, sweet lemon butter and turn that sourness around. But if those (metaphorical) lemons are still too bitter then sandwich that lemon butter between layers of rich chocolate brownie, dripping with chunks of white chocolate and crunchy macadamia nuts. Sometimes […] Read more…
“They put leaves in the bottle?” What followed was a moment of mutual bewilderment. I was hosting a sparkling wine tasting and had totally misinterpreted my audience. ‘Lees’ is a pretty confusing French terms referring to dead yeast cells. Not a terribly romantic notion but those dead little yeast are quite magical in the way […] Read more…