Noshing Round Noosa

12
Nov

Noosa is as well known for its foodie delights as it is for its surf breaks, gentle climate and pizzazz.

Jam Guru Jamie Milverton stirs an enormous stockpot full of gently simmering tomato chutney while explaining that his mother taught him much of what he knows about jam. ‘She wins a lot of gold at the Rockie show for her jams. I grew up learning from her.’

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Rustic Rutherglen Gets Fresh

02
Nov

Anyone claiming a casual familiarity with the wines of Rutherglen most likely thinks of sweet fortified and heavy duty reds.

Fair enough since these have been the bread and butter of Rutherglen for more than a century.

Well, times are changing and they’re changing in a very pleasant fashion. While the bread and butter wines, Muscat, Topaque (formerly Tokay) and strong reds mostly made from Durif, continue to deliver outstanding wines of excellent quality, other grapes such as Marsanne, Roussanne, Tempranillo and dry wines made from Portuguese varieties such as Touriga, Tinta Cao and Tinta Barocca are adding new excitement to the array of tastes.

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The Finest Margarita

30
Oct

The Finest Margarite in Santa Fe_New Mexico

Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the arts mix with the drinks.

Santa Fe, New Mexico: arts, opera, galleries, museums and history. It’s a small town capital city high up on a dry plateau surrounded by snow capped peaks. No wonder Georgia O’Keeffe loved it. If a landscape artist isn’t inspired here, then there’s really no hope for the genre. O’Keeffe painted Pedernal Mountain dozens of times, saying that “It’s my private mountain. It belongs to me. God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it.” It’s not her mountain but her ashes were scattered atop so it’s safe to assume that they’ve become very close.

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Epicurean Best in Show

22
Oct

Dunkeld seems an unlikely town to choose for setting up one of the country’s best restaurants but as the Royal Mail Hotel’s first manager/sommelier Lok Thornton claimed in 2008, “We plan to be not only one of the ten best restaurants in Australia but in the world within a few years.”

No doubt this forecast has indeed put tiny Dunkeld on the map in a fashion it hasn’t enjoyed since it was a major stop on the Cobb and Co. route to Hamilton in the 1850s. Situated at the southern extremity of the Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park with stunning views to Mounts Sturgeon (Wuragarri) and Abrupt (Murdadjoog), Dunkeld’s scenic location certainly adds extra emphasis to overall visitor satisfaction.
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Winding a Way in the Waipara

16
Oct

There’s more depth to the Kiwi wine scene than bucket loads of Sauvignon Blanc.

The Marlborough region is dumping wine in huge quantities on the global market. Credit given where credit is due; some of the gooseberry infused S.B. from the northern parts of the South Island is eminently quaffable.

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