Wine a Day

Vines Alsace
I’d been to Libertine in North Melbourne last year to drink Tahbilk wines matched with their excellent cuisine, so when we read on the Del Zotto website that they were doing a similar thing with their wines, we jumped at the invite. There’s something...

Portuguese red wines are often about fruit, fruit and more fruit. That is great if you have that sort of pallet – which many important critics seem to have – but people have other tastes and like other styles. One producer in Portugal is doing things...

When you think of the Algarve in Portugal what comes to mind? Stunning beaches, great resorts, world class golf courses, fantastic restaurants, lots of bars and cafes all of which are flooded with tourists in the summer. The wine industry does not immediately...

I went to the movie premier of Mother Vine in Lisboa at the start of May. It is a movie by Ken Payton, known to me from his blog Reign of Terroir, as well as meeting him on a couple of occasions here in Portugal. He is from California, knows quite a...