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Eighteen with silk stockings - the wine was eighteen and the silk stocking was my wife's - and it made a very adequate sieve for a 1997 Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon by Gralyn Winery. The colour had shaken off its purple youth and certainly had not turned brown with decrepitude of age, rather he...

Consistently over the last 25 years i have read and been told that much of australian red wine is good in the cellar for 5 or maybe 10 years and after this period it is over the hill and only good for vinegar. The other night all the learning- or most of it was thrown cleanly out with the trash as m...

Over the last few months i have been drinking very little...well... almost nil, but this weekend i broke the drought with a Shaw Smith [b]M3 Adelaide Hills [/b] Chardonnay 2007. The aroma was super with a mix of nuttiness and gentle caramel,reflecting i suppose a gentle char of the oak. The mouth fe...

i only spoke briefly on the phone recently to max but in a few minutes he put me at ease and made me feel that i had known him for years. i was enquiring about some of his books and he was still working on two of what could have been GREAT and now, even though we have many these two last ones will n...

regards the dozens of bogus subscribers to the forum.... i have just been on/in the max lake site and they have a couple of questions you have to answer when emailing to cut out spam ...so can this sort of techno whizzing be used to dump the bogus brigade... just a thought from a computa cretin...???

If you are interested in wine history, search out the books by Benwell entitled "Journey to wine in Victoria" or his book, "Coonawarra- a vignoble. Both excellent reading of a time when wine was a thing of beauty and not controlled by the accountants, and this comes thru in his writin...

I have a spare copy of the first issue of WINESTATE which i am prepared to swap for issues from the early 1980's which i have as holes in my collection. i also have other doubles of some others from early dates or can buy at a negotiated cost please let me know.

While not strictly on the subject of heavy metals in wine i have read in an old W.S.B.G. that some old wine in the late sixties or early seventies was fined with asbestos.... a metal/chemical that seems to have some nasty impacts when inhaled and i just wonder at the impact when ingested bon appetit...

the quality of wine journalism is dictated by the quality of the consumer and unfortunately the quality of this journalism is dictated , or seems to be dictated by the profit margin the magazine is able to achieve.. ala winestate and the illustration costing extra... not for the benefit of the consu...