Wine


McWilliams Mount Pleasant Isabelle Chardonnay 2010 Tumbarumba, New South Wales (£9.99 Waitrose) Refreshing, fruity style, a mix of citrus (tangerine/clementine) with stone fruit (apricot/nectarine/plum) with a light veneer of smoky toasty oak, ripe but sleek, with a slightly briny tang on the finish. B+ Thorn Clarke Mount Crawford Chardonnay 2010, […]

Wine Tasting Video: South Australian Chardonnay + a NSW interloper



The Spee’Wah Cuvée Chardonnay NV, Murray Darling (£9.50 The Drinkmonger, Bibendum) Simple, sherbetty style, has a honeyed edge to the cooked apple fruit, quite broad and biscuity, but lacks freshness. C Jansz Tasmania Premium Non Vintage Cuvée (£13.99 see below for stockists) Fresh, elegant style, strawberry, raspberry and apple, with a […]

Wine Tasting Video: Australian Sparkling Wine



Aficionados of Australian country music – and sadly there are many – will be familiar with the late Slim Dusty’s classic track ‘A Pub With No Beer’. ‘But there’s nothing so lonesome, so morbid or drear, Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer.’ It is […]

Around Wine – a wine shop with no wine…