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The famed Gut Oggau house are known for their wines all made to specific personalities, with the drink young wines being represented as the younger family members up to the much more complex and age-worthy wines being the Oma and Popa of the family. A lovely touch, I am sure you will agree!They are from the Burgenland region of south-east Austria. In this part of the country the 2016 vintage was a particularly tough one with heavy frosts and more summer hail than you can shake a stick at. The owners and winemakers of these great wines; Stephanie and Eduard,...

The World of Wine Festival is the first event (of, hopefully, many) that The Cellar is organising and sponsoring. It is important to us to be involved in sharing our love and passion of all things vinous to the wine lovers of New Zealand. I wanted to take moment out to just summarise why it is important to me, Connal, the Director of The Cellar to do events like this.  I love New Zealand just as much as the sandy-jandal wearing-kiwi that you will run in to as you pop in to your local Four Square or dairy this summer...

I will never forget the first time that I travelled to the Hamptons. It was a business trip (which actually lead to the creation of this great wee business of mine!) and it was glorious. You might ask; 'what business have you got in the Hamptons??' and the day earlier I had none. Then I visited and before you knew it, I did.  I'm not in Real Estate (can you tell?) nor am I in finance/the business of making others rich (note to the wise: the wine business is not one where you get rich quick) so what business did...

I am truly thrilled to be able to spend my life drinking amazing wines and traveling to the regions that make them, as well as meet the charming people behind them. It is always exciting to help out winemakers on their new projects, especially when they are as gifted and as close to me as Tamra Kelly-Washington. Recently, Tamra launched her new Sicilian-wine adventure project: Coco di Mama. To start off with she has made a Grillo and a Syrah - both are wonderful and great value. NOTE: the Coco di Mama is in my TOP 10 Picks for Xmas...