‘The Young Turks’– The Future of Australian Winegrowing
Enthusiasm is one of those emotions usually reserved for children and young people, as they set out on their adventurous life journey. Poised with limitless possibilities and potential, bound up with...
View ArticleWhat’s In Your Glass? Salty Wine? – Newcastle, NSW
Six bottles of perfectly good wine have been sitting at the bottom of the ocean at a depth of about 8 metres, in order to find out what happens when you submerge wine under water and age it for three...
View ArticleCheers Newcastle! – What’s In Your Glass? 2014
I bought a wall planner on Friday the 3rd of January, took it home and laid it out flat, on the living room floor. I started looking at dates over 6 months away which I thought would be suitable to...
View ArticleA BRAND /NEW/ WEBSITE and MORE FROM THE WINE IDEALIST!
The Wine Idealist was started just over two years ago with the aim to learn, explore, narrate and be an advocate for natural, organic and biodynamic wines from Australia and New Zealand… Since...
View Article‘Outliers’– The Australian Wine Paradigm Shift
This week’s edition of The Wine Idealist sees the first of many outside contributors writing original content for thewineidealist,com. Wine Idealists, other than myself, will be offering up new...
View Article‘Green Pioneers’– Organic Winegrowing in the Hunter Valley
The Hunter Valley is not only the oldest winegrowing region in Australia; it’s also one of the hardest places in the world to grow and make wine. When James Busby made the trek up from Sydney back in...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: ‘The Wine Hunter…’ by Campbell Mattinson.
… and now for something completely diff, well, almost completely, different. Campbell Mattinson’s book, The Wine Hunter: The Man Who Changed Australian Wine, is not only one of the best wine books...
View ArticleHelp Keep The Wine Idealist Sustainable… Support #WineIdealism!
Hello, Wine Idealists! Happy Friday! I hope this post finds you smiling and well (and with, possibly, a glass of something nice in your hand!)… There’s some exciting news afoot, here at...
View ArticleWhat’s In Your Glass? 2015
The Real Wine Fair has a lot to answer for. You see, it was the Real Wine Fair, held over three years ago, in May 2012, in London, that triggered my love for natural, organic, and biodynamic wine. I...
View ArticleNewcastle Knows What’s In Your Glass… 2015
Natural, organic, and biodynamic winegrowers of Australia and New Zealand, unite! inGRAPESweTRUST presents…. What’s In Your Glass? was held for the third time in a row in sunny, beautiful, Newcastle,...
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