Twisted Oak makes wine samples available to those who are passionate about wine, and who enjoy telling others about that passion. So, if you put charcoal to cave wall, stylus to clay, pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, or sound...

Winery Review: Craggy Range Waimarama Road , Hawkes Bay As I said in my last post, I like the wines from Craggy. They are, on the whole, very good. So understandably I jumped at the chance to go out to the tasting room when I was visiting my family in Havelock North this weekend. I was unimpressed. We (my mum and I) walked in and the pourer just gawked at us. ‘Have you...

Winery Review: Craggy Range Waimarama Road , Hawkes Bay As I said in my last post, I like the wines from Craggy. They are, on the whole, very good. So understandably I jumped at the chance to go out to the tasting room when I was visiting my family in Havelock North this weekend. I was unimpressed. We (my mum and I) walked in and the pourer just gawked at us. ‘Have you...

Winery Review: Craggy Range Waimarama Road , Hawkes Bay As I said in my last post, I like the wines from Craggy. They are, on the whole, very good. So understandably I jumped at the chance to go out to the tasting room when I was visiting my family in Havelock North this weekend. I was unimpressed. We (my mum and I) walked in and the pourer just gawked at us. ‘Have you...

The Oz Wine Show is off to the Frankland Estate International Riesling Tasting (FEIRT) this Sunday in Sydney. There's a bit of an entrance fee but it's a premier event and you'll get to scoff top notch wines from Germany, Austria, France, USA, New Zealand, Portugal and Australia. More info ...

THE WINE : 2004 brought had an early bud-break, and a warm summer and harvest season. It was a year where the old vineyards of Green Valley showed their worth. THE VINEYARDS : Dutton Ranch farms over sixty unique, separate vineyards located in the coolest areas of the Russian River ...

By Contributing Columnist Donavan Hall In one of my (yet to be published) novels I created a Belgian-style restaurant and brewpub in the Long Island town of Port Jefferson.  This little beer fantasy of mine is not so far from reality.  For those of us on the East End who ...

Cold technical facts: released October 2006, only 80 cases made Twisted Few selection: N/A 100% Touriga Nacional (fortified) a damn little bottle! see this wine on the Twisted Oak web site Links to reviews of this wine on the web:...

wow - thanks Katie! Link: Chicken Farts and Great Wine...

OzWineShow #2 features a review of one of Australia's largest wine producing regions, an explanation of what to do a look for when tasting wine and a discussion of the "new world versus old world" wine debate...