Another packed week, with more Barossa valley touring, a little first-class education (the chance to sit in on two of the Lan

Australian readers will be very familiar with this, but for those who may be following this blog from the northern hemisphere, and especially the more northerly parts of the northern hemisphere ...

Barossa notes will follow, but this is an interim note in part to thank all those who have sent samples through for me to loo

As you can sniff from the photograph below (which shows the Greenwich riverfront near the Royal Naval College), the week of the Decanter World Wine Awards (April 20th to 24th 2009) was an unusually b

Jancis Robinson recently asked me for a piece on 'the process of moving your family and your palate' to Australia, for posti

Last October I visited Taiwan for the first time – in search of great oolong tea, as well as to write a piece about the isl

The last couple of weeks have involved a tour through South Australia, from Clare to McLaren Vale, followed by a first look

One day last summer a very nice man called Mark Ryan contacted me.

I’ve been up on the Hills, and down in the Vale – Adelaide and McLaren, respectively.