Mark Ravenscroft, winemaker with a stellar career of making great drinks which wine shows applaud, continues to impress. Most recent is the grape variety pinotage found in his homeland.
Mark’s current business is his namesake wines – cleverly seperated to Ravens Croft Wines – on a 1.5 hectare vineyard 10 kilometres north west of the Granite Belt’s only town – Stanthorpe … Read article.
By Peter-Scudamore-Smith, Master of Wine
Published in Queensland Smart Farmer, Oct – Nov 2014
Stories about Italy and France | the French Wine Tour Focus Edition
Edition Twenty | August 2014
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A Leading wine entrepreneur of the South Burnett is Jason Kinsella of Moffatdale Ridge. He is a commanding fellow, measured and gently spoken who always reminds me that he makes wine his customers’ enjoy.
So a visit to his brightly-painted, colonial-style cellar door built near Barambah Creek on a 145-hectare beef property is beckoning. The imposing Moffatdale Ridge insignia pitched against the roof suggests a proud family business … Read article here.
By Peter-Scudamore-Smith, Master of Wine
Published in Queensland Smart Farmer, Aug – Sept 2014
With proud Sicilian roots, it is no wonder Ray Costanzo is a champion winemaker, and now the Queensland maestro of alternative variety of wines.
He hails from a very drinkable address on 337 Sundown Road, deep in Strange Bird wine country – that is, in the rural hamlet of Ballandean, a good 10 kilometres south of the granite town of Stanthorpe.
To visit Ray’s cantina (winery), you need to stump up to a glass of white vermentino (origins north-west of Sicily in Sardinia) or red nero d’avola, the hero red grape of the hot lands of southern Sicily, the Costanzos’ homeland.
To read more about Golden Grove Estate’s Ray Costanzo … Read article here.
By Peter-Scudamore-Smith, Master of Wine
Published in Queensland Country Life, Jun-Jul 2014
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