Tag Archives: Wine Musings

Both Sides, Now

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Jeremy Pringle

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald It’s 4.30pm on a Friday and I’m tasting the … Continue reading →

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Is Orange the New Black?

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Jeremy Pringle

“Other people aren’t the scariest part of prison…it’s coming face to face with who you really are. Because once you’re behind these walls, there’s nowhere to run, even if you could run. The truth catches up with you in here…and … Continue reading →

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The South’s Gonna Do it Again and Again: 2011 Abbotts & Delaunay Releases

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Jeremy Pringle

“So gather ’round, gather ’round chillun’ Get down, well just get down chillun’ Get loud, well you can be loud and be proud Well you can be proud, hear now Be proud you’re a rebel ‘Cause the South’s gonna do … Continue reading →

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Eight days of 2011 Thousand Candles at Lunch

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Jeremy Pringle

The controversy has passed, the word ‘ethereal’ has been liberally used and opinions have already been formed – often without even tasting the wine. It’s time to get on with things. What better way to do it than by sitting … Continue reading →

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Get Yer Rocks Off: McLaren Vale Scarce Earth 2011 Releases

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Jeremy Pringle

The Scarce Earth project is the brainchild of Dudley Brown and Adrian Kenny, who worked together at Inkwell Wines for a number of years. It’s an exploration of the diversity of McLaren Vale’s terroir through single vineyard Shiraz wines from … Continue reading →

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Hot and Cool: Nine Years of Heathcote Estate Shiraz

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Jeremy Pringle

I arrived at the Stokehouse restaurant on the Brisbane river last month and said a brief hello to Heathcote Estate head winemaker Tom Carson, before taking a seat and tasting through nine vintages of the winery’s Estate Shiraz and a tenth wine, … Continue reading →

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Is There an ‘Aussie’ Style of Wine? Waiting for Goode-ot…

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Jeremy Pringle

“Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed…Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! What do you say? It is true … Continue reading →

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Vale WWEI: Prepare to Meet Your Maker

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Jeremy Pringle

Vale interloper Gods listen. Or at least that’s the conclusion I came to at the end of a three-day junket in McLaren Vale earlier in July. To begin with, I kind of muscled my way into the Queensland “Meet Your … Continue reading →

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Re-evaluating Australian Merlot: Taking a Step Back from Fear and Loathing

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Jeremy Pringle

If Bordeaux is unfashionable these days amongst the wine media, sommeliers and the cognoscenti, then it’s not too far off the mark to say that Australian Merlot is loathed. There are reasons for this (apart from plain ignorance, which still … Continue reading →

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The Red Stripe Comes of Age: d’Arenberg’s 100th Birthday Lunch

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Jeremy Pringle

And it’s Time, Time, Time… Chester Osborn, who began his tenure as chief winemaker at d’Arenberg in 1984, was limping ever so slightly as he came to greet me. We were at Urbane for what turned out to be an … Continue reading →

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