Are wine quizzes a waste of your valuable (drinking) time?
Wine quizzes – do they reveal anything about your wine preferences, or are they a waste of your valuable (drinking) time?
Five Champagnes you’ve never heard of.
Do you want to wow your clients or wedding guests, and impress your soon to be in-laws with a beautifully packaged and utterly delicious, high quality small grower/producer Champagne? If the [...]
Spring Rosé – Wine Tasting and BBQ
Join us for a casual, fun get together to say hello to spring and get stocked up for summer. Felix Riley, Australian specialist Provence Rosé dealer will introduce us to a lovely range of wines, [...]
Using wine to connect with your top customers
The power of wine is immense. Personally, it has put me in front of people from all walks of life. From fantastic customers that simply want an interesting six pack delivered once every three [...]
Wine Tasting – with Belinda Thomson from Crawford River Wines
Belinda is Chief Winemaker and Viticulturist at her family winery, Crawford River Wines, in far South-West Victoria. Working in New Zealand for 3 years after completing postgraduate studies in [...]
James Scarcebrook – The Intrepid Wino
We would like to introduce you to James Scarcebrook - The Intrepid Wino - who is going to curate some unique collections for The Local Drop, along with tasting videos all about the wines selected.
Wine Tasting Event with Scott Neville
It's clear that Scott is on a considered mission of sourcing excellent wines of great value from across France. He works with producers that often invest so much of themselves in the land that [...]
Wines of the Valpolicella
Jay Bessell takes you on a journey to the Veneto, Northern Italy, as he tastes the 3 fabulous wines from the Valpolicella heartland in our 'Valpolicella Italians' Collection.
Meet the Winemaker: A wine tasting event with Michael Hall
A rare opportunity to join Michael Hall and The Local Drop for a ‘slow wine’ tasting experience. WHEN: Wednesday July 11, 6pm WHERE: The Local Drop HQ 30 Victoria Street, Brunswick [...]
How to choose wine for your wedding
So you have found an incredible venue… something that will look perfect when you are surrounded by your friends, family and significant other. You have someone you trust cooking for the big day [...]
Wine Tasting with Evan Milne & The Local Drop
Evan Milne, founder of the wine distribution company ‘Stock On Hand’, has selected six unique wines for us to enjoy and purchase on the night. When: Wednesday 27th June from 6.30pm onwards Where: [...]
Beyond the classic Negroni
Beyond the classic Negroni lives a world of variations ready for us to explore. Here are just two to try… THREE WOOD NEGRONI 15 ml Three Wood Scotch Whisky 15 ml Professore Antica [...]
How to make a Negroni
The Local Drop’s Jay Bessell shows us how to make a classic Negroni. Measure 30ml of MALFY gin Add gin to mixing glass Measure 30ml of Maidenii Sweet Vermouth Add sweet vermouth to mixing [...]
Your next dinner party…
So you have a significant dinner a matter of weeks away and you haven’t even thought about it. Enter French born Romuald and the team from The Local Drop. So you have a significant dinner [...]
2016 Francesco Cirelli Trebbiano D’Abruzzo
It took me all of 4 seconds to buy this wine… It took me all of 4 seconds to buy this wine… The fact that the woman showing it to me was one of the best in the game helped. There are [...]
Rivo Gin from Lake Como
Who would ever consider collaborating with their mum to produce a gin? If your mum has a natural love of foraging and you happen to live by Lake Como, it starts to make perfect sense. Marco [...]
Meet the Winemakers – Sam Cook and Alastair Reed, Konpira Maru
Sam Cook and Alastair Reed, are the duo behind the Konpira Maru label, they source grapes from the top of New England, NSW all the way down to Kilmore in Victoria. Alastair a lecturer in [...]
What is… Txakoli?
Bringing light to the lesser known wine styles and grape varietals out there. Txakoli – Pronounced, Cha-ko-li. Txakoli is a white wine produced in the Spanish provinces of the Basque [...]
An afternoon with Nav Singh from Domaine Simha
Premium wine from Tasmania – Harvested during Lunar Cycles. We had the absolute pleasure meeting Nav Singh from Domaine Simha for an exclusive look at the new vintage releases of his range. [...]
Meet the Winemakers – Giorgio de Maria, June 22nd 2017
Our second tasting in the “Meet the Winemakers” series saw Giorgio de Maria with special guest Tom Shobbrook. For those of you that don’t know Giorgio – he is the king of importing lo-fi [...]
