Simple, Easy to Make Roast to Go With Your Wine

by Vu on August 9, 2011

Over the past week I was hit by the cooking bug and decided to cook up some great comfort food to go along with a nice bottle of wine.

One of the most simple and great tasting roast that I always like to make is Roast pumpkin, red onion and sausage.

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Brokenwood – 2007 Rayner Vineyard McLaren Vale Shiraz

by Vu on July 18, 2011

Brokenwood Wines

Price: $75 Alcohol: 14% Variety: Shiraz Date Tasted: Jul 2011

My tasting notes and thoughts:

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Free Wine Tasting @ the Ashfield Hotel

July 9, 2011
Ashfield Hotel

I can’t remember how many times I drove passed the Ashfield Hotel but every time that I do, I always noticed the “free wine tasting every Friday nights” sign and think to myself I need to stop in one Friday. So finally after all those times, this time I managed to pop in and see [...]

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Footcrush Feast 2011

March 24, 2011
Footcrush Feast

When Jennifer Moncrieff of Robert Stein said to me that “you should come visit our winery in Mudgee, we kill a BEAST”, I was like “did you say you killed a beast?” But soon enough she explained that it was an event that the winery puts on once a year where they prepare a feast [...]

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Pepper Tree – 2008 “The Gravels” Shiraz Viognier

March 8, 2011
Pepper Tree Wines

Pepper Tree Wines Price: $35 Alcohol: 14.5% Variety: Shiraz Viognier Date Tasted: Nov 2010 The Gravels is a blend of Shiraz (95%) and Viongier (5%). My tasting note and thoughts:

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Tulloch – 2010 Late Picked Verdelho

March 3, 2011
Tulloch Wines

Tulloch Wines Price: $20 Alcohol: 12% Variety: Verdelho Date Tasted: Feb 2011 My tasting notes and thoughts:

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Winter Creek – 2009 Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc

March 1, 2011
Winter Creek Wines

Winter Creek Wines Price: $18 Alcohol: 12.5% Variety: Sauvignon Blanc Date Tasted: Feb 2011 My tasting notes and thoughts:

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Thai Pothong, Newtown

February 24, 2011
Thai Pothong

With Thai food becoming ever so popular in Sydney over the past decade and Thai restaurants popping up on every street corner, this week I thought it would be a good to go out and see what wines would match well with Thai food. Once again I was joined by my two good friends Paul [...]

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Introduction to Petit Verdot with Stuart Olsen

February 12, 2011
Petit Verdot with Stuart Olsen

Back in August of last year I had the pleasure of attending an “Introduction of Petit Verdot” class, held by winemaker Stuart Olsen at Wine Odyssey. Stuart Olsen is the winemaker behind Eloquesta Wines. Back then I was just starting onegrape and hadn’t attended any wine events yet, so I through this would be a [...]

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Wines of the West Festival

February 4, 2011
Wines of the West Festival

The Wines of the West festival was held a couple of weekends back (22nd and 23rd of January) at The Carrington Hotel in Katoomba. The goal of this wine festival was to showcase wines from the Mudgee and Orange regions. I have also been hearing a lot of good things about Sauvignon Blancs coming out [...]

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