by John Rozentals | Oct 30, 2020 | QHA Review, Wine
Queen Victoria granted John Septimus Roe, Western Australia’s first Surveyor General, 3000 acres of land on the riverbanks at West Swan in honour of his 57 years of service to the Commonwealth. He named the property Sandalford after a priory in England’s Berkshire,...
by John Rozentals | Oct 1, 2020 | Columns, QHA Review, Wine
Lillypilly Estate winemaker Robert Fiumara’s daughter Gianna has wasted none of her study time in making an impact on the Leeton family-owned business. Gianna had taken leave from the University of Adelaide and was studying oenology and viticulture on an exchange...
by John Rozentals | Sep 1, 2020 | Columns, Wine
I remember writing about the Blue Pyrenees 2012 Shiraz and referring to the district’s hallmark pepperiness and of being almost able to taste the gumtrees that dominate the landscape in its region of origin. Those signs of regionality are gone from both the BPE 2018...
by John Rozentals | Aug 3, 2020 | Columns, Wine
Craig Stansborough: A true son of the Barossa JOHN ROZENTALS likes what he tastes in a South Australian trio of reds. Craig Stansborough, who’s in charge of making wine at the Barossa Valley’s Grant Burge Wines these days, has enough local fruit to turn out at least...
by John Rozentals | Jun 30, 2020 | Columns, Uncategorized, Wine
Willy Lunn: producing some great wines. Image: Wine Australia. In the 1860s Victoria’s Yarra Valley, on the eastern fringes of Melbourne, was in its first viticultural heyday and one of the most important wine regions in Australia. Wineries included Yering Station,...
by John Rozentals | May 29, 2020 | Columns, Uncategorized, Wine
Photo: Tyrrell’s famous HVD Block: sits in the lee of the Hunter Valley’s landmark Brokenback Range. John Rozentals gets up close to a chunk of fabled Hunter Valley dirt I guess that the over-reaching image that visitors to Tyrrells Wine in the Hunter Valley’s Broke...
