The Hunter Valley Wine Show
August 24, 2016
I’ve just returned from a week’s judging at the Hunter Valley Wine Show, a couple of hours north of Sydney. It was a fascinating week, both in terms of the wines themselves and the Australian approach to judging – I’ll be writing about both in more detail in due course. The last day of judging week sees the Celebration Luncheon where 500 of the Valley’s wine professionals get dolled up and…
Two Decanter tastings: Germany and Rhone
August 9, 2016
When it comes to organising tastings, Decanter, as you might expect, are pretty adept - their tasting room in London is one of my favourite places to work through a lot of wines. I've participated a couple of panel tastings there recently, covering two of my favourite styles. The first is 'Value Rhone' (less than £18 a bottle) in the July 2016 edition (with Joanna Simon from The Wine Gang and…