Welcome to the third installment of my three-parter on the wines of Austraila’s Victoria region (if you missed them, catch up on Part 1 and Part 2). Today, I’m featuring one of Victoria’s hundreds of family-run producers, Fowles Wine. In April of 2024, I had the pleasure of attending a media dinner at Philly’s Sampan…
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Family Matters (Victoria Wines, Part 2)
Welcome to Part 2 (you can check out Part 1 here) of my 3-parter feature on the wines of Victoria, Australia—an area rich in small animals that can quickly kill you (like the box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus, and redback spider… hell, even the magpies are dangerous there. But it’s also home to a diverse an…
Hard Work, Hard Rock, and Desperation: G.D. Vajra Recent Releases
For several years now, I have often wondered why the wines of Piedmont’s G.D. Vajra don’t rake in 98+ points like, all the time. Sometimes I think that the major critics just don’t “get” what these wines are all about. Which seems even stranger, now that I think of it, considering that it took me…
From Here to Eternity: Tenuta Licinia Recent Releases
The soft-spoken James Marshall Lockyer, winemaker of Tuscany’s Tenuta Licinia, would likely balk at the Iron Maiden reference of today’s title, but as you’ll see in a few minutes, the concept of eternal distance feels apt when tasting through his wines, because they have finishes longer than my run-on sentences. Established in 2007, Tenuta Licinia…