by Judy Pridmore | Aug 12, 2023 | The Weekend Australian Magazine
Duke (Ian) Ranson had a long-held retirement dream of establishing a small vineyard in the heritage-listed Porongurup sub-region of the Great Southern. The dream, shared with artist wife Hilde, took shape in 1998 when they sold their clothing business, and purchased a...
by Judy Pridmore | Aug 5, 2023 | The Weekend Australian Magazine
Over the years, I (and I suspect my fellow winewriters) have received wines labelled with the names of famous sports stars; cricket, football (any of the three codes) and so forth. Chefs have also been in the game, and in the early ’80s, racehorses and suchlike...
by Judy Pridmore | Jul 29, 2023 | The Weekend Australian Magazine
The Snowden family has made throwing down the gauntlet to the tyranny of distance into an art form. Parents Phil and Viv Snowden built a successful mining consultancy business in South Africa; daughter Pam married Patrick Corbett, who was born in County Clare,...
by Judy Pridmore | Jul 22, 2023 | The Weekend Australian Magazine
No, there hasn’t been a typographical glitch: I have given all three wines profiled here in print 97 points, and the fourth the same. I was looking forward to the tasting, but the idea of using the same score materialised only as I worked my way through the...
by Judy Pridmore | Jul 15, 2023 | The Weekend Australian Magazine
The tasting notes for the three Bekkers McLaren Vale/Clarendon wines featured this week will, in a limited sense, speak for themselves. Which is as well, because the Bekkers story can’t be told in a mere 330 words of my weekly column. It is a story that starts...