Reflections on a very special recent wine dinner featuring two Châteauneuf-du-Papes from the legendary Château Rayas: a 2014 Pignan and 2010 Rayas.

Report on a recent Sommeliers Australia blind wine tasting event at Melbourne’s Cardwell Cellars. The tasting consisted of four bottles, two white and two red, including a Chenin Blanc, Pinot Gris, Beaujolais and Grenache.

Notes from a Vosne Romanée themed private wine dinner in Melbourne.

There were three key takeaways from a recent Sommeliers Australia blind wine tasting event on how to become a better blind taster. These include practicing blind wine tasting regularly and consistently, focusing on the structural elements of wine and being logical in conclusions.

At our Melbourne wine tasting events, we open bottles from a range of vintages. This leads to the question of when is the best time to open bottles in your wine cellar. There are three factors to consider to help work this out.

Many of our wine tastings include bottles that have been carefully sourced over time and stored in our cellar. In this post, we share five tips to help you select the right bottles for your own wine cellar.