14th & 15th May 2011. “Step behind the scenes of some of Victoria’s premium wineries, restaurants and hotels and dine with local winemakers and chefs and learn the tricks of the trade – from the owners themselves!” Click here to start exploring the events on offer. Or we can get you started and take you [...]
“The Romans, as the saying goes, found truth in wine, and they made a habit of draining their cups dry. But they had enough restraint to leave this one bottle behind, stashed in one of two sarcophagi excavated in 1867 in what"s now the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The wine in the cloudy, yellowed [...]
Divers have found on July 6th bottles of Champagne on the bottom of the Baltic Sea between Sweden & Finland. Visibility was bad so the divers couldn’t find the name of the ship or the bell and so brought up a bottle instead to try and date it! The handmade bottle was label free but [...]
26 – 29 August 2010, Royal Exhibition Building,Carlton. Taste of Melbourne brings together the city's finest chefs with an extraordinary range of quality food and drink from Victoria and beyond, including wine tasting with Gourmet Traveller plus much more... Check out their website for all the yummy info:- http://www.tastefestivals.com.au/australia/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=68 If you do miss out on [...]
For those of you who like to shop online and for those of you haven’t yet taken the leap... then ‘Graysonline’ is for you! It is a reputable online retail and auction business that stocks wine from the various wine regions of Australia and around the world. They have a ‘Buy Now’ feature where you [...]
