But every once in a while, a bottle comes along that walks the tightrope between vegetal and vivacious with all the poise of a French acrobat who microdoses acid. Rarer than rocking horse poo, Domain Simha Sauvignon Blanc from Louise Radman and Nav Singh is a Tasmanian temptress

If you think all good Syrah must be birthed from some misty Rhone Valley like a Victorian novel heroine in a corset, allow Château Oumsiyat to politely punch you in the palate.

Coonawarra is undeniably the national cabernet capital.

Embla leans into wood-fired cooking and seasonal ingredients, without feeling like it is jumping into trends. Some real integrity here!

If wine could tell a story, Billy Button Mysterious Malvasia  would be the elusive, mysterious character in an epic novel. This bottle...

Standing this up against a local Pinot makes for some interesting tasting.

On the honk its all smoky and rustic with elements of that barnyard nonsense

This wine first arrived as part of a mixed pack from our friends BenandWine Ben is a great bloke, an under appreciated wine mind with a...

Regular readers will know this wine scoffer has a thing for natural wine - skinsy, funky, natural, orange... it is all about wines with...

You know those cool kids at school who were popular for no reason, and seemed to get away with doing not much but were still popular? I...

For the last decade and a bit , Tim Webber and Matt Swieboda have operated Love Tilly Devine at 91 Crown Lane Darlinghurst. Its a small,...

You know that feeling or at least I hope you do, when you have a beer from a brewery which is life changing (I kid you not, we are bloody...

And so the obsession with skin contact wine continues. It seems I can't leave the house these days without finding myself back home with...

Utzinger wines kind of happened by accident. One of the oldest stories going around... Swiss winemaker goes travelling the world to find...

When you mention the name Stefano di Pieri, immediately you conjure an image of a jovial Italian man tossing things about in a pan on the...

Australian sparklings have never really lifted my skirt. Too many bottles of French fizz, down the old screech, has spoiled me a bit and...

Big red wines don't make the tasting bench as often as they should. Pinot Noir and Shiraz seems to be favoured, among the very many...

Like sand through the hourglass, the days of our lives continue, and our love for skin contact and minimal intervention wines is ever...

Not enough of us are talking Pinot Blanc. It makes creamy white wines, but it also makes crisp, delicious spring drinking wines and a few...

Fair to say, there is a hell of a lot of excitement in the Scoffer team about the emergence from what has been a very long winter. ...