The Wine Station Blog

What's not to like? Malbec's profile is ideally suited for most palates and particularly for this time of year. It's mid to full bodied, with black and blue fruits predominating with a good lash of chocolate and a pretty twist of rose petal. It's perfumed, robustly structured, good with steak and generally delicious. It's from Cahors in France (traditionally known as Cot) and found...

(To get a printable version of Barolo Wine School including the story of our very own Mauro Veglio click HERE)BAROLO WINE SCHOOLTime to get initiated! In Barolo, 2016 was heralded as the perfect vintage. I asked Fabio Burlotto of G.B. Burlotto was there any circumstance he could think of that would allow improvement on this stellar vintage in the future. No. How can you...

(To get a printable version of Barolo Wine School including the story of our very own Mauro Veglio click HERE)MAURO VEGLIOYou drive down the dusty laneway in Cascina Nouva to find the house and winery offer a panoramic view of the Aborina vineyard, with the town of La Morra in behind it. There is another house at the end of the drive, that of...

IRELAND IN THE RHONE We've got Irish wine for you to sell mate. My boss in Melbourne announced to me one morning after he had returned from ProVine in Germany, one of Europe's premier meeting points for merchants and distriburs to catch up and get sloshed....and try wines. He seemed to think 'Irish wine' was hilarious as a concept. I started to explain that...

For a printer-friendly version click HERERIOJA was exposed to wine early in the piece when the Pheoenicians settled andbrought with them the expertise to ferment grapes in the 17th Century. Theindigenous populations have made wine ever since. The isolated nature of the regionmeant that not much wine left and it was consumed locally.In the early days grapes were foot stomped in stone troughs and...