With all the uncertainty that the current situation brings we put forward the following tastings for the next issue. With the help of the wine industry (and our desire to help them) we hope to bring you the following; Sweet Whites & Fortifieds, Inland Rivers, Organic Wines, Emerging & Alternative Varietals, Adelaide Hills, World’s Greatest Shiraz Challenge, South Island (NZ), Gin, Vodka & Whisky. An amazing line up that we hope you will enjoy.

• Briefs
• NZ Briefs
• European Report with Sally Easton
• Wine Tutor with Clive Hartley
• Wine Travel with Elisabeth King
• Grapevine
• Wine Investment & Collecting
• What’s it Worth?
• Aftertaste

• Best of the West
• Wines of New South Wales
• McLaren Vale, Langhorne Creek & Fleurieu
• North Island NZ (Gisborne, Auckland & Northland)
• Michael Cooper’s Recent Releases

• New Releases
• Best Value Buys under $20

TO THE BEAT OF A DIFFERENT DRUM

SETTING A SUCCESSFUL RHYTHM FOR THE RIVERLAND AND BEYOND

MOST people in the wine industry travel along the mainstream path to achieve their goals and/or greatness. Occasionally you come across someone who marches to the beat of a different drum. Such a person is Eric Semmler, of 919 Wines in the Riverland. Eric started out as a horticulturalist before becoming a winemaker. After working for a while at Brown Bros and All Saints in Victoria he became, for many years, the fortified winemaker at BRL Hardy in the Riverland, turning out some pretty impressive fortifieds from that massive winery…

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