Recent Posts Tagged With 'adelaide hills'

• South Australia sweeps International Wine Challenge

  Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 02:52 in mclaren vale, south australia, adelaide hills, barossa valley, international wine challenge

  South Australian winemakers have blitzed the 2009 International Wine Challenge (IWC), picking up 27 gold medals. The Challenge brings together the very best judges with the arduous task of tasting every single bottle of wine. Boasting more than 9,500...

• Adelaide Hills Chardonnay

  Posted on Thursday April 23rd, 2009 at 02:31 in Wine, Chardonnay, adelaide hills

  Come up to the cool climate of Adelaide Hills (1 to 3 May 2009) in its most exquisite season - Autumn. Drive through the region in all its glorious colour. Discover the new Chardonnays; fine, elegant golden wines and the delicacy of sparkling wines i...

• Adelaide Hills Crush

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 06:39 in wine tour, adelaide hills

  Crush 09 will continue to build on the success of this key Adelaide Hills Festival. In addition to providing a wonderful showcase for the very best the Region has to offer on the Australia Day weekend, Crush 09 is taking an innovative direction in o...

• Sticky Rice Cooking School

  Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 01:36 in adelaide hills, sticky rice cooking school

  Sticky Rice Cooking School in Stirling (in the Adelaide Hills) is an exciting new culinary experience offering hands on cooking classes with adventurous and talented chefs in Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. You can learn how to create restaurant qu...

• Hill-Smith Honoured

  Posted on Wednesday June 11th, 2008 at 02:06 in adelaide hills, shaw + smith

  Michael Hill-Smith MW, the owner of the Adelaide Hills based winery Shaw & Smith, has been named Member of the Order of Australia in this years Queens Birthday Honours list.The Order of Australia is awarded to individuals to recognise their contr...

• Viognier extinct!

  Posted on Tuesday January 29th, 2008 at 01:46 in Wine, adelaide, shiraz, mclaren vale, wine tour, viognier, south australia, adelaide hills, barossa valley

  20 years ago the Viognier white grape variety was almost wiped out. With as little as 35 acres in France remaining it was another unloved variety about to disappear. That would have been a great shame as people had only started to be able to pronounc...

• 2007 South Australian Vintage – the good, the bad, and the interesting

  Posted on Monday November 5th, 2007 at 01:29 in Wine, mclaren vale, wine tour, south australia, adelaide hills, barossa valley

  The good news with this years vintage was that most areas had rest over Easter. The fruit was picked and in the winery a good three or four weeks early in most regions. Volumes were down significantly, down to almost a third of the average. It was...

• Adelaide Hills Wine Region

  Posted on Saturday November 3rd, 2007 at 22:06 in Wine, wine tour, south australia, adelaide hills

  Who would swap a view of Sydney Harbour, with the Harbour Bridge on one side, and the Opera House on the other, for a view of the Adelaide Hills? Only someone passionate about great food and wine. The Adelaide Hills is an environment that easily surp...