The Wine Station Blog

We hope to win hearts & minds with a focus on the wine world's most divisive grape: Chardonnay. Hearts will be easily won with this selection, because to drink Chardonnay is to love it. Winning minds may be slightly more challenging, because to win them we have to change them.Chardonnay, like Sauvignon Blanc is polarising. Unlike Sauv. though, which divides opinion becuase of it's...

Kenny Likitprakong is becoming a Californian wine making legend, utilising all organic fruit from parcels up and down the surf coast of California. In his urban winery in Santa Rosa near San Fran, he makes a galaxy of wines under a number of wine labels. Not bad for a former skater punk that was once sleeping rough on beaches (hence the name of his...

Austrian Wine is largely a young person's game - and for good reason! In the mid 80's after a string of cold vintages, some Austrian wine makers found that adding antifreeze to their wine gave the appearance of ripeness in lieu of fruit ripeness. While the practice was of course highly illegal and potentially lethal, it saved a couple of vintages. People were confounded...

Ahhhhhh, Piemonte (Piedmont to us). Is there a region more mystical and magical? There is a strange microclimate, a dense fog that sits around the hilly region, with rolling vineyards and spectacular vistas, it feels at times like you're in a dream. It is also beautifully untouched by modernity. It is the spiritual home of Nebbiolo, the King of Italian grapes, and while there...

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