Wine quizzes – do they reveal anything about your wine preferences, or are they a waste of your valuable (drinking) time?

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

We caught up for a quick drink with Brian Conway from Izway Wines in the Barossa Valley. 1. What are you drinking now and why? 2016 Izway Aglianico, I was thirsty and it was the closest bottle. [...]