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Summer seafood and a cool dry white......

19th November, 2009

Munching on summer seafood and washing it down with with a cool, dry white wine is a favourite at our place. And boy, we've needed a few cleansing white wines after sweating in our jocks through Adelaide's latest heatwave. I've been down on the beach in McLaren Vale fishing every afternoon to escape the heat and have been bringing home a little bounty of seafood.Marion's been doing what she does best in the kitchen and her latest creation is really tasty...full of fresh crabs,...
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Pleasing Oscar.....

9th November, 2009

A favourite line of mine is from one of the early Oscar Wilde plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III.Oscar asks.......What is a cynic? The man who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.I reckon this line of thought applies to buying wine like no other.  It's a pretty tricky field in which to judge value. Australia alone has well over 2,000 wineries and there are tens of thousands more around the world. So there are literally millions of wines...
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