“To make the best wines possible,”… It was at this moment that I thought, ‘I should probably try a few (if not all) of these Macquariedale wines,’ and see, or rather taste for myself just how good they actually are. Ross led me over to the cellar door tasting bar. A small, but beautifully timbered … Continue reading A Visit to Macquariedale: Part Two
This week, I made my way out via the Lovedale road to Hunter Valley Wine Country – the oldest wine region in Australia, and the most recognisable Australian wine region in the world. Yep, even more so than the Barossa – in fact, it even boasts some of the world’s oldest vines. I was heading … Continue reading A Visit To Macquariedale: Part One
It’s Sunday evening, it’s just started to rain a little bit, Match of the Day is streaming on my laptop… and I’m wondering just what in the name of FSM is a Nebuchadnezza? The capacity of a wine bottle in litres is followed by the number of standard size bottles contained: Standard Wine Bottle holds .75 … Continue reading Methuselah, Balthazar, Magnum…
The Wine Idealist is a direct result of my time spent in London, serving, tasting, and drinking some of Europe’s most amazing examples of sustainable winemaking. Thanks, mostly in part to my boss, Giles, the owner of Albertine Wine Bar, I was exposed first hand to the current evolution (or is that revolution?) of wine … Continue reading Champions of Europe…
The natural wine movement is a relatively new phenomenon, that could be seen as the wine industry’s participation to a whole raft of sustainably minded paradigm shifts in business throughout the world. But the wine industry, in it’s commercially minded sense, still remains fairly cynical to the whole thing… Natural wine’s themselves, however, have been around since the … Continue reading Getting back to basics…
Hello… My name is Daniel… I have an immense passion for wine, in particular, natural, organic, and bio-dynamic wine’s. It’s a passion that has intensified slowly over my 28 short years, and ignited during my two years in London when I worked in west London’s best wine bar… Albertine W12 7DP. I’ve decided to make it … Continue reading The Wine Paradigm Shift
Welcome to the Wine Idealist blog – this site will soon become the most comprehensive, interesting and entertaining site on all the internets regarding the emerging paradigm shift for natural, organic, and bio-dynamic wines throughout Australia and New Zealand – in the meantime, check out fellow wine idealist Hardy Wallace from the Dirty South Wine blog espousing … Continue reading Welcome…
Welcome to Wine Idealism... 