The wine region of Sunbury is located in the region of Port Phillip of Victoria of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Craiglee or the Domaine Craiglee produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Sunbury are Chardonnay, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Pinot noir, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Sunbury often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, citrus fruit or tropical fruit.
In the mouth of Sunbury is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 13 estates and châteaux in the of Sunbury, producing 35 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Sunbury go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).
The French shipment of 600 bottles of De Haartman & Co Cognac – plus 15 boxes of Bénédictine liqueur – is believed to have been destined for Tsar Nicholas II, but was intercepted in the Baltic Sea and sunk by a German submarine in May 1917. Now Cognac house Birkedal Hartmann has refilled 300 of the recovered bottles with Cognac dating from the early 1900s, using packaging identical to the original, and is selling them for €9,000 each. The wreck of the SS Kyros was discovered by Swedish explo ...
Springtime brings the so-called ‘Caldaia di Maggio’ to Barolo, a noise similar to a kettle simmering that is caused by evaporating water in the soils. This year, however, it’s unlikely that this phenomenon will occur. Drought is affecting the entire north of Italy; predominantly the Langhe but also Valpolicella and Franciacorta. Not even Tuscany is spared. The vineyards are lacking the reserves of water that their soils usually contain at this time of year. Winter passed without snow in almost a ...
I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...
