The 2015 vintage – what they say, well, John Forrest in particular! We’d already heard as early as Christmas, back in the UK, that New Zealand was having an unusually dry, hot summer. In Marlborough there had been no rain […]
The 2015 Grape Ride … A Forrest Wines speciality The Forrest Grape Ride is an annual event, now in its 12th year and sponsored from the get-go by Forrest Wines. It starts and finishes from the estate … even during […]
Langhorne Creek: one of the Best-kept Secrets in Australian Wine Langhorne Creek is a wine region that many people will have seen on Australian wine labels. Most known and unknown wineries of the Barossa and McLarenVale have a wine […]
The Forrest Team for the 2015 Vintage The Team: What has struck me most about the Forrest vintage winery team is the big smile stuck on everyone’s face. As John F said himself “They must love working for me!” I […]
Penfolds A rather overcast start to a Monday morning but I was certainly looking forward to the visit at Penfolds iconic Magill Estate, now situated on the east side of the city of Adelaide. The historic estate has now been engulfed into […]
A new vintage hand at Forrest … Perhaps the post title is a bit of an overstatement – a part vintage hand/part observer, when it all gets far too complicated, at Forrest Wines! Writers from anywhere aren’t famous for […]
Philbo: a Wine Legend Phil(bo) Christiansen, owner of Longwood Wines, is a living legend in McLaren Vale. As a born and bred child of the Vale, he remembers the place being very different indeed before all the investment and wine […]
The winery was hugely busy throughout harvest but amongst the organised chaos this little bearded dragon was spotted in the winery. We took him back to the safety of the vineyard but not until he had a full tour of […]
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