Eurocentric Wine Imports

17/10/2024

Macedon Ranges is spoiled for choice. We'll have some French, Italian, German and Spanish bubbles at this fine soiree.

https://www.banksfinewine.com.au/product/sparkling-tasting-at-the-old-rectory/3870

26/09/2024

You want bureaucratic madness? Of course this story hails from the US. Read on and apply the palm of your hand to your face ...

Forever contending with a shifting definition, organic wine now has a fresh challenge in the shape of a new rule from the US Department of Agriculture. Read the latest wine news & features on wine-searcher

17/09/2024

Melburnians come and partake of some Alsace beauties at this special French wine fair, this Friday and Saturday. Featuring boutique importers focusing on one region at a time, you're sure to find something new! Special prices for a glass, bottle or case on the day.

06/08/2024

We'll be pouring some Alsace beauties at this fab French festival.

We have partnered with Australia's leading French wine importers to give you the chance to taste more than 110 wines from France's most famous regions

28/04/2024

I met this beautiful woman once. I made a hash of filming her on a windy day and I failed to capture her in a still with an iphone, but she's dreamy material for a good photographer and a charming yet imposing personality. I was thrilled to see part of her journey captured in print on www.jancisrobinson.com last week, despite us missing said wine of the week through a confusion of email stacking. We have the 2020 Anjou Blanc and eagerly await the 2022, which should have just started its long journey to Australia. Just as she's doing better at every opportunity, I'll do better next time I visit. For now, enjoy the article: https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/chateau-de-plaisance-lanjou-blanc-2021-anjou

Château de Plaisance, L'Anjou Blanc 2021 Anjou

02/04/2024

See a silvaner in your future? Read this story and watch this space!

Unlike elsewhere in Germany, Silvaner reigns supreme in Franken, where winemakers are dialing in the right viticulture techniques for quality—and the industry is noticing…

20/03/2024

Brisbane trade tasting! Monday next week with a bunch of superstars showing more than 50 fresh drops for your shop shelves and autumn-winter wine lists.

12/03/2024

A lovely tribute to the first Mosel producer in our portfolio, Willi Schaefer, who of course was much more than that, most importantly a kind and gentle family man whose legacy is not only his beautiful wine but the beautiful souls he passed the baton to, his son Christoph and daughter-in-law Andrea. Gee, I'm going to be old if we reach our 40-year anniversary! Farewell, dear Willi, and much love to the family and friends left behind.

The Germans have a word – sympathisch – which doesn’t mean “sympathetic” but is one of those words that resists direct translation. “Someone with whom one sympathizes” isn’t quite right, and while “A person who evokes sympathy” comes closer, it’s not close enough. “Agreeable....

10/02/2024

Our good friend Scott Banks covered for us so the boss could get away to Queensland for a few days. He couldn’t help himself but launch his drone around the coolroom! Lucky it wasn’t armed!

30/01/2024

Turns out there's a supersonic reason why Champagne makes a pop when you push the cork out. Researchers at Vienna University of Technology used high-speed cameras to capture some surprising results. Makes you want to pop a few more bottles just for fun! Click translate on the attached link if you can't read German.

Warum knallen Sektkorken beim Öffnen? Dieses Rätsel haben Wiener Forscher nun gelöst. Die Gründe sind hochkomplexe physikalische Vorgänge: Das ausströmende Gas erreicht Überschallgeschwindigkeit - und wird kurzfristig kälter als am Nordpol. ...