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In Melbourne, Wines Of Adventure And Intrigue At Blackhearts & Sparrows

May 29, 2018 by Eileen P. Kenny

It's a wine consumer tale as old as time: you need to buy a bottle of wine but you don’t necessarily know what you want or need, and you’re too scared to engage with the person working in a wine store for fear of condescension or ridicule. Maybe it’s because once upon a time you were scathingly shut down for not knowing that red Burgundy wine was always (or at least partially … [Read more...] about In Melbourne, Wines Of Adventure And Intrigue At Blackhearts & Sparrows

In Melbourne, A Natural Wine Laneway At Paradise Alley

January 16, 2018 by Eileen P. Kenny

Many years ago now, I went to an event that was held in an alleyway off a side street in the suburb of Collingwood in Melbourne’s inner northeast. It was a magazine launch at a motorbike workshop, full of all the things you would expect: the smell of diesel, pieces of motorbikes strewn around, and something of a makeshift bar for the workshop’s members with beer cans as far as … [Read more...] about In Melbourne, A Natural Wine Laneway At Paradise Alley

Soulfor Wine: The Very Best From Melbourne’s Sulphur-Free Wine Fest

December 20, 2017 by Eileen P. Kenny

There's a growing worldwide familiarity with the term "natural" wine—wine made from grapes with no added yeast or bacteria to ferment. But while most winemakers that could go under the "natural" banner generally follow the no inoculation rule, there is still one ingredient that finds its way into a large amount of cellars and eventually bottles of wine: sulphur. For some, the … [Read more...] about Soulfor Wine: The Very Best From Melbourne’s Sulphur-Free Wine Fest

Made With Love: The Wines Of Melbourne’s Campbell Burton

December 5, 2017 by Eileen P. Kenny

It’s rare in any industry—and in life—to meet a person as sincerely passionate and genuinely interested as Campbell Burton. Our paths have crossed many times over the years, from the days when he was behind the bar at Melbourne's Builders Arms, a historic pub that's today a hub for the city's roaring natural wine scene. From there Burton has gone and started up a wine-importing … [Read more...] about Made With Love: The Wines Of Melbourne’s Campbell Burton

Jurassic World: The Wine Pop-Up 30 Million Years In The Making

June 23, 2017 by Jordan Michelman

This coming Sunday, June 25th there's a massive Jura wine event series happening in Paris, Melbourne, Austin, and New York City. The event's mission statement is simple: "The Jurassic period in geology is named after a strata of limestone in the Jura mountains. Thus, without Jura, or its wine, we would never have had the gift to humanity that was Jurassic Park. It is … [Read more...] about Jurassic World: The Wine Pop-Up 30 Million Years In The Making

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