The science of wine and food matching
Once upon a time it was one of the simple, accepted dining mores that red wine should be matched with red meat and white wine with fish. Even those whose lips move when they read the menu could… Read More
Observations and rants of a hedonistic polymath who eats between meals and drinks between drinks
Category: Beer and Wine
Short cut for Aussie wines
With an ever expanding range of grape varieties being grown in this wide brown land, the Australian drinking vernacular is poised for a rethink. Australians abbreviate everything from the common ‘G’day’ salutation to the expletive, ‘Ken Oath’. Then… Read More
The business of hangovers
I have a number of Chinese female friends whose cheeks quite clearly colour when they have a glass of wine. This has always fascinated me. Certainly other people’s faces flush too but there seems to be a Sino-… Read More
Pulling the cork on sparkling wine
When I recently learned that wine company Evan & Tate had produced its Zamphire sparkling wine with a plastic re-sealable closure I instantly thought of my father. I remembered his apoplectic outburst when I told him that I… Read More
Fully Worked in a bottle
In motoring, rev-head parlance, the term ‘fully worked’ could mean anything from having the cylinder heads shaved in your vehicle to the engine management chip being tweaked or going the whole white knuckled gamut and committing to fully… Read More