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 | Winemaking, Winesplainer
Given we’re located in the King Valley, but we don’t make Prosecco, this little explainer might help clarify a few points about how these wines are different. It’s worth noting here that one is not better than the other – that is something that only the drinker...
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 | Feb 9, 2022 | Winemaking, Winesplainer
Also known as LD and ZD, these two terms appear on sparkling wine labels from Australia and France. They are often regarded as a ‘quality indicator’ but in terms of liking the wine more, that will be up to the drinker… Late Disgorged This term late indicates the wine...
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...
by hello@clareburder.com | Oct 25, 2021 | Opinions, Winemaking
The health and wellness industry has impacted most categories of consumer products so it’s no surprise to see wine being made & marketed in different ways than we’re used to. In addition to organic and biodynamic wine, we now have natural wine, clean wine, green...
