Another good weekend in the national press so far as the Independent Newspaper Group was concerned. Not only did our…. Bellvale Pinot Noir The Quercus Vineyard, South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia 2008 appear on Saturday…. But on Sunday we also had our terrific…. Bertrand Stehelin, Côtes-du-Rhône Villages [...]
Christmas Muffins Just as a famous Nestlé spherical confection can advertise itself as ‘the lighter way to enjoy chocolate’, so, perhaps, these beauties could be pitched as ‘the lighter way to enjoy mince pies’? In all honesty, a mince pie muffin is likely only a little healthier than the regular pie version but, really, this is [...]
Primed with prejudice derived from more than a decade of tasting too many alcoholic, heady, heavy, over-ripe and over-oaked Aussie Chardonnays back in the 1980s & 1990s, I tasted Bellvale’s Chardonnay some months ago and finding some special qualities in the wines, I cautiously agreed to let our enthusiastic sales team scoop the first and [...]