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What Wines to Match With Easter Eggs?
What wines go well with chocolate Easter eggs? This is a long standing question in the wine world where some take food and wine matching very seriously. As for Corks, he doesn’t worry about it too...
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Wasted Wine
From time to time one opens a long savoured bottle, only to find the contents far short of expectation. Sunday night at our parents’ land somewhere west of Bendigo, we opened some very special bottles...
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Wedding Wines
Oh I love a royal wedding. The pageantry, the celebrity and the beautiful young couple declaring their love and commitment to eachother in front of 2 billion people worldwide. We’re all going to M...
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A Quiet One
It’s been a quiet week since the celebrations of last Friday’s Pip and Kat show, hence the inactivity on this site. Corks couldn’t find a date for last night’s Fed Square wine tasting of Grampians and...
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Mornington Wine Tour
This weekend Corks and Mrs Corks are going to the Mornington Peninsula for a weekend getaway. I would prefer to describe it as a wine tour, however seeing as Mrs Corks, aka Lady P, has organised...
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Why Has Facebook Forgotten Me?
A number of Cork Talk groupies have mentioned recently they no longer receive updates to their Facebook pages whenever there is a new post on this blog. Well, based on a limited investigation, Corks...
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The Pursuit of Value
Wine is an expensive interest. Those for whom goon bags* or a bottle of Savvy B are not up to scratch, a good bottle of wine can easily melt a gaping hole in even the most robust of leather wallets....
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Measuring Value for Money
Yesterday I referred to a wine I’d had recently that was really good value for money. It got me thinking about value for money and how to measure it. I’ve worked a lot in UK central government (as a...
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A Grand Millesime Experience
A favoured radio station in Melbourne, Australia – 3AW - recommended Grand Millesime Fine Wines as the on-line wine retailer of the year in 2011, for one of its radio shows. Naturally Corks checked it...
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Massive Barossa Shiraz – Always Check the Label
Corks purchased a Chris Ringland Barossa Valley Shiraz 2009 from Dan Murphys on the weekend. A helpful gentleman employee of DM’s highly recommended the Ringland on the basis that it is not a typical...
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