Growing up in a wine-drinking European family, I have worked hard to turn a family hobby into a viable profession. My informal wine education started young, with my first glass of Chablis being poured for me on my 11th birthday.
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Read moreChalk Hill Wines launched their very first harvest and grape stomp day, inviting wine lovers to get their feet dirty.
Read moreLocated in Littlehampton in the Adelaide Hills, Honey Bang Bang delivers a fun, vibrant take on South East Asian food. The venue is owned, run and served by husband and wife team, Montie & Hailey Waraich. Their food is created from locally sourced produce, to deliver meals with flavour bangs of high quality. Their love and passion for food is evident in their food, and is perfect to be shared amongst family and friends.
Read moreTo be an ‘artisan’ is very much about setting your own path driven by a human desire to explore, experiment and to express ourselves. To create and share things shaped in our mind and made by our own hands for the enjoyment of others. Often proffered with a simple “I made this, please enjoy”. A tinge of pride yes, but hubris never. - Artisans of Barossa.
Read moreRecently, Dan and Jess ventured up the hill (if you have been there before, you know what we are talking about) for the opening of the NEW Chalk Hill Deck Bar, as well as tasting their fifth small batch release, the 2021 Chalk Hill SBR Grüner Veltliner.
Read morePhil's career in wine has been a mix of independent retail in the early 90s, to working and studying in the UK knocking over the first two hurdles to the Master of Wine. After returning to to Australia, he worked for Baily and Baily and then began a lengthy stint in wholesale championing a long list of small, independently owned wineries. He has also worked as cellar hand, picker, pruner and a bunch of other inglorious roles, all to keep his feet firmly on the ground and convey a greater appreciation of what happens before wine makes it to your glass.
Read more‘Simple’ cooking is not only delicious, but it can also be easy. The Ottolenghi SIMPLE cookbook delivers the goods with over 130 brilliant recipes from award winning Chef Yotam Otttolenghi. It truly is everything you love about Ottolenghi, made simple.
Read moreWe put on our hats, shorts and cowboy boots to give Curator Wine Co. a hand with their 2021 vintage… and to learn a thing or two about winemaking from a seasoned veteran!
Read moreA cracker of a day was had by all as we went out to take part in the 2021 Manser Family Wines vintage!
Read moreEveryone has a dog story… well hair of the dog. Plus, we sell wine, cracking good wines at that too. So, let’s see what wine is suited to your personality by picking a dog variety.
Read moreLocated in McLaren Vale, Richard Hamilton and Leconfield Wines are the home of three South Australian wine labels- Leconfield Coonawarra, Syn Sparkling Wines and Richard Hamilton Wines. The Leconfield vineyards which produce the Richard Hamilton fruit are well established, with some of the oldest vines in the region.
