Nebbiolo is not a red wine grape you'd associate with North West Tasmania. Very much at home in Piedmont (northern Italy), where it makes long-lasting Barolo, the variety has indeed found new digs at Spreyton's La Villa Wines. Marcus and Gail Burns spent several years living in Italy during Marcus's long career in European cycling and they returned...
Tasmania's Coal River Valley has a brand spanking new cellar door, and lovers of arguably Australia's best cool climate Chardonnay will soon be queueing by the gate to get their hands on these ultra-scarce releases from the Shaw + Smith property just outside Richmond. They're genuinely door-busting wines.
With the approach of summer and the festive season, this is the time of year for good affordable sparkling wine. This non-vintage blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier from vineyards in northern Tasmania is a real charmer. Pale salmon pink in colour, it's very well made, delivering plenty of dry, smooth, mouth-filling flavour in the red...
After buying the original Frogmore Creek vineyard at Penna in 2012 and renaming it Jansz Parish Vineyards, the Hill-Smith family wasted no time in casting their eyes over the nearby landscape for an additional site to expand the company's wine grape production. An adjacent land title was soon snapped up, later to become Mount Lord Vineyard. Less...
