by James Halliday | Jan 16, 2021 | What I'm drinking
I have 12 vintages of Guigal Cotes du Rhone between 1976 and 2005 in my cellar, wines that are linked by a common history, most obviously the maker and region. Behind those are an article I wrote for my then newspaper, The National Times, in which I said that...
by James Halliday | Aug 30, 2020 | The Weekend Australian Magazine
It’s 1860, and two men start ventures north of the village of Eden Valley in the Barossa. One was pastoralist James Heggie, the other farmer Ferdinand Vorwerk, a German immigrant starting a new life in Australia. It wasn’t until 1966 that the two families...