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‘Secrets of the Subsoil’– Mount Edward, Central Otago, N.Z.
“If you really want to push the boundaries and express what you say you’re trying to express, ie. ‘that wine comes from that vineyard’, then you can’t be using chemicals,” says Duncan Forsyth,...
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What’s In Your Glass? Salty Wine? – Newcastle, NSW
Six bottles of perfectly good wine have been sitting at the bottom of the ocean at a depth of about 8 metres, in order to find out what happens when you submerge wine under water and age it for three...
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Cheers Newcastle! – What’s In Your Glass? 2014
I bought a wall planner on Friday the 3rd of January, took it home and laid it out flat, on the living room floor. I started looking at dates over 6 months away which I thought would be suitable to...
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‘Nature’s Farmer’– Hochkirch Wine, Victoria
“Everyone has heard of the Garden of Eden,” says John Nagorcka, winegrower and farmer from Hochkirch Wines in Victoria, “but, you haven’t heard of the Garden of Monsanto, or DuPont.” John comes from a...
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From the Ground Up – Burn Cottage, Central Otago, NZ
The Sauvage family are American mid-west cotton and wheat farmers, originally from Oberlin, Kansas, who own land holdings right around the world, including a cotton farm in Moree NSW, Australia, and...
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Cool Climate Respect – Stefano Lubiana, Tasmania
“Just because you’re doing biodynamics, doesn’t mean you’re going to have a good vineyard,” says Steve Lubiana, winegrower and owner of Stefano Lubiana wines from Granton in Tasmania. “You have to be...
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‘No ‘I’ in Team’– Domaine Rewa, Central Otago, New Zealand
A great wine is nothing without a great vineyard, a vigilant viticulturist and a careful winemaker. Sometimes throughout history, some people have been blessed to be all three, but in the new world,...
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A BRAND /NEW/ WEBSITE and MORE FROM THE WINE IDEALIST!
The Wine Idealist was started just over two years ago with the aim to learn, explore, narrate and be an advocate for natural, organic and biodynamic wines from Australia and New Zealand… Since...
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‘Less is More’– Fromm Winery, Marlborough, NZ
William ‘Will’ Hoare made his first wine in Marlborough when he was 11 years old, and was later kicked out of high school for selling bottles of it to his friends, and fellow students. “As punishment,...
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Help Keep The Wine Idealist Sustainable… Support #WineIdealism!
Hello, Wine Idealists! Happy Friday! I hope this post finds you smiling and well (and with, possibly, a glass of something nice in your hand!)… There’s some exciting news afoot, here at...
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