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The second bottle opened tonight. The first was another corked bottle of French wine. I was initially pro-screwcap, and then pro-cork, but I think I am definitely back to being pro-screwcap. The screw...

Warm spices and plums, some cedar and milk chocolate, which with time gave way to raspberries and five spice, and something vegetative, but not in an offensive way, reminiscent of freshly sliced green...

It is many years since I have had a bottle of Leasingham. Ten years? A deeply coloured wine, and aromatic too: eucalypt, blackberries, cedar, spearmint and red currants. The palate is strongly tannine...

There is a liquor merchant in Brisbane – Craft – thats run by Tony Harper who I have known for a long time.  Its a fascinating shop to visit – home of the artisanal, small make alcohol of all sorts.  ...