Food writing guru Richard Cornish looks behind the curtains of the La Sirène brewery and gives us an insight to how this brewer with a background in winemaking uniquely applies two trades to making one beguiling product.
The second instalment of the annual Vineyard of the Year Awards has been decided following a six month process that included site inspections of shortlisted finalists, with the judging panel reaching a consensus on the winner of the four trophies: New Vineyard of the Year; Old Vineyard of the Year; Innovative Vineyard of the Year, dubbed ‘The Groundbreaker’; and Vineyard of the Year.
We caught up with Gerald Diffey and Max Allen for a glass of wine to chat about their book collaboration, wine culture and how a shopping bag stuffed with a lifetime’s worth of anecdotes and musings was transformed into the Beggars Belief book.
We’re all familiar with vineyard images of vines trained along a trellis, forming neat curtains of grapevine rows as the growing season progresses. But recently in the Australian wine drinkers’ lexicon, the phrase ‘bush vines’ has been popping up. So what are bush vines, and, more importantly, how do the wines from bush vines differ to those from a conventional farming system?
The Wineslinger Awards, the wine guru’s guide to the best haunts in Australia right now, has crowned the 2021 Wineslinger winners – as voted on by over 150 of the country’s leading sommeliers, winemakers, hospitality tastemakers and journalists.
We take a closer look at the growing trend of industry professionals ditching city life and moving to regional areas in the pursuit of a better work-life balance. Acclaimed wine writer and novelist Campbell Mattinson – who has experienced a tree-change first hand – speaks with some of the wine guns that have upped stakes and taken their skills off the beaten track.
The 2021 Vineyard of the Year Awards Top 50 has just landed. “There’s so much great work being done in vineyards across the country,” said awards panellist Max Allen, “and wine drinkers still don’t hear about it often enough – but we’re trying to change that!”
Wine Guns for Hire is the place for seasoned professionals and new talent to take their next professional step in the wine industry. There are all manner of jobs at businesses along the supply chain, from growing grapes and making wine to servicing and supplying wine businesses, from selling and serving bottles to those whose job it is to talk about wine, as well as those business roles behind the business, such as IT, accounting and design, etc.
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