2016 Balancing Rock Wines The Rock Shiraz, Granite Belt, Queensland The Granite Belt is renowned for its granitic structures that have evolved over many an eon. One of note is a structure known as the Balancing Rock located atop The Pyramid in Girraween National Park. It is an amazing feature that presents you with aContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #313”
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Wine Code Breaker #312
2017 Bird in Hand Montepulciano, Adelaide Hills, South Australia “Italian” is a word at first reading that does not appear too hard to rhyme. “Stallion” is a word that instantly comes to mind. Charles Cotton, the author of “Book 1, Virgil Travesti”, a mock poem in his self titled poetical works, selected “tatterdemalion” as hisContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #312”
Wine Code Breaker #311
2006 Soul Growers Black Cellar Sparkling Shiraz, Barossa Valley, South Australia Sparkling Shiraz, for some, is an aberration. For others, it is the gold that appears at the foot of a rainbow. Tasting a Sparkling Shiraz is more than the alleged gold at the end of the rainbow, it is more like following gravity’s courseContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #311”
Wine Code Breaker #310
2017 TarraWarra South Block Chardonnay, Yarra Valley, Victoria “Horton Hears a Who!” plays out William Blake’s concept of a grain of sand that contains a universe. Our hero, Horton, saves the universe of the Whos of Whosville much as viticulturalists protect and preserve their plots. They hear and sense the vines as they live andContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #310”
The Unexpurgated Wine Code Launch
Wine is sunlight held together by water — Galileo Gallilei unexpurgated (adjective); (of a text) complete and containing all the original material; uncensored. This is the first post on my new (old) blog. It all started back in 2012 as a bit of fun for friends and colleagues in the workplace. A little note aboutContinue reading “The Unexpurgated Wine Code Launch”
The Unexpurgated Wine Code 