by hello@clareburder.com | Oct 25, 2022 | Homepage, Opinions
A chat with a fellow producer recently veered into total taboo territory: should wine producers provide free wine at tastings at events, in exchange for the value offered by the event organisers? My friend made an interesting point: no one ever asks a restaurant to...
by hello@clareburder.com | Mar 15, 2022 | Homepage, Opinions, Uncategorized, Winemaking, Winesplainer
With our 2021 wine releases, we’ve elected to publish the details of how they are grown and made, including the additions and processes that we utilize to get them from grapes to bottle. You might have noticed that in the wine world, this is not standard practice. ...
by hello@clareburder.com | Feb 9, 2022 | Homepage, Winemaking, Winesplainer
I’ll take a gamble here and say the closer you live to inner north of Melbourne (or capital city hipster equivalents) the more you would have seen the term ‘Pet Nat’ on a wine list. What I mean to say is, Pet Nat isn’t quite mainstream yet but it’s coming, so I’ve...
by hello@clareburder.com | Jan 9, 2022 | Homepage, Recipes
I apologise to those who follow a recipe closely, I am not that person, so I hope this is accurate enough! This is a tremendous dish for big gatherings and can be put together mostly beforehand. It’s a black rice pilaf with slow roasted lamb, that features loads of...
by hello@clareburder.com | Jan 9, 2022 | Homepage, Opinions, Uncategorized, Winemaking
There’s an ad from Naked Wines going around the socials that says ‘chances are your $30 bottle contains just $8 of wine. Let’s fix that’. Let’s fix what? It turns out, I have a lot to say about this, sorry. (I’m not going to link to an image of the ad but if you say...
