In the Weekend Australian Magazine story about Whicher Ridge by James Halliday on February 25th, Halliday states in one of his opening paragraphs that ‘Cathy and Neil Howard cumulatively took more than 40 years to establish Whicher Ridge’ and this statement really brought it home to me how long it has taken us, both apart […]
Winery Long Table Lunch with The Naked Poet, The Inglorious Bardster & The Ratbag of Rhyme On Sunday 24th of April, we are hosting the opening event for the South West Bush Poets Festival – a long table lunch at our winery for up to 60 guests with 3 of Australia’s best known and highly […]
Redtail Sparkling Shiraz – Four Years from Harvest to Release With Christmas approaching, my thoughts turn to what special dishes will I prepare for Christmas lunch this year, and more importantly, what wines will we have on the day? Sparkling Shiraz and Christmas lunch for me go hand in hand. Christmas just wouldn’t be the […]
Sweetness in wine is called residual sugar and is usually measured in grams per litre (g/L). Basically, residual sugar or ‘RS’ is the sugar from the grapes that’s left over after fermentation. The more residual sugar remaining in a wine, the sweeter the wine is. It is certainly not due to the addition of sugar […]
Wine descriptors are common terms that you can use to describe the aroma and flavours in a particular wine. Descriptors can help you put words to the wine you’re tasting and they can be valuable tools for you to use to communicate to another person what you like or don’t like in a wine. It […]