The Association of Boutique Winemakers Inc

Michael Shafran has started a Bagel revolution in Sydney with his NY recipe for the genuine article. He will join the ‘foodies’ who are lining up to supply their produce to compliment the 600 wines at the 3 October event celebrating the wines of the Six Nations Wine Challenge. We asked Michael what makes Brooklyn…

600 Six Nations Wine Challenge wines…… Enjoy Cloudy Bay sizzling clams and chardonnay, South African bilton and pinotage, Argentinean beef and shiraz, lamingtons and aussie spark, smoked alpaca on sourdough with tempranillo, Chilean empanadas and cabernet, American bagels and zinfandel, NZ smoked salmon and pinot gris and hundreds of other combinations. Finger food, glass in…

Six Nations Wine Challenge judge representing the US is Dan Berger and he reports on the results of the Californian Riverside International Wine Competition.  New Zealand wine Guru and also a Challenge judge Bob Campbell MW was among the judges. Francis Ford Coppola the famed film director who has established one of California’s fastest-growing wineries,…

Dru Reschke calls himself Top Dog and coffee Maker and is very proud to quote Len Evans when discussing his family’s Coonawarra wine company – Koonara Wines. “….most wine authorities acknowledge that Coonawarra is Australia’s greatest red wine district, and one of the producers of great reds of the world”.  Len Evans The Complete Book…

Winemaker Geraldine McFaul has been invited by Chairman Huon Hooke to join the judging teams for this year’s Boutique Wine Awards. Geraldine graduated BApp.Sc. with Distinction, from Charles Sturt University in 1995 and during her course was selected as the Ron Potter Scholarship winner for an 18 months trainee winemaking position at that University. This…

Daniel McKeating is the Creative Director of Lost & Found a brand consultancy based in Perth.  He is also a judge on Australia’s Wine Industry Design Competition and comes to Sydney each year to join the judging teams. No that’s not him dressed in chain mail that’s one of his designs! Daniel is an experienced…

The USA wines entered into the Six Nations Wine Challenge include many premium wines from well known wine companies. St. Supéry is no exception. Their web site is a world of information including regular recipe up-dates. “Step into our family-owned winery in the heart of the Napa Valley and experience the best of the wine…

Mount Avoca has entered the Boutique Wine Awards again this year with a range of their wines looking for medals. Forty years young. Mount Avoca began with the dream of a Melbourne stock-broker who wanted a tree change 30 years before the term had been coined. Events in the life of Mount Avoca Vineyard 1967…

NZ King Salmon Joins the Thinkers and Drinkers Tasting Event. New Zealand King Salmon will serve both cured and smoked salmon alongside the NZ wines at the Six Nations Wine Challenge annual tasting event that has become synonymous with quality wine events. Villa Maria Chardonnay and NZ King Smoked Salmon – Why not! King salmon…

Polkura’s Sven Bruchfield picks his famous Syrah in Chile.  Visit Sven in the vineyard..