Vintage Wine Manager. Sydney. This wine blog started for fun, offering unbiased, independent reviews of wines, food, restaurants, events and other related subjects. This offers information for people interested in wines (buying, food/wine matching, tastings, events, travelling etc) and well reviewed restaurants. The way I review on this site:

- Restaurants I have dined at and not enjoyed, I do not write about on this blog (as tempting as it may be!). 

- I usually only review wines I have liked/appreciated. For wines I have not enjoyed, I do not mention on this site.

- I have no financial ties or obligations to any wine companies or anything I review here (otherwise I’ll mention it if I do, eg. if I’m working with the winery/distributor at present).

- Even if a wine is “not my favourite type”, I will still give credit for any good examples of that style of wine – I appreciate all styles of wine.

- Descriptions of wines are from my personal opinion, and of course not the be-all and end-all of what the wine is about.

- I aim to provide simple, straight-forward, yet informative reviews. I notice there are many people (especially the younger generation) getting into the wine world and the whole wine market/advertising/advice can be a bit boggling, so I want my reviews to be easily read by all from beginners to the wine-o-philes. Feel free to ask me any questions.

My main work is as a vintage wine manager in Australia. I’ve been working in wine for 7 years in a broad range of wineries/companies, mainly through wine events/education, wine repping and at Sydney international and domestic airports. Currently studying the WSET course at Sydney Wine Academy. I’ve travelled overseas a lot and hope to bring more Australian wine culture overseas in the future as well. I see Australia has a lot to offer in the world of wines, particuarly South Australia with the typical McLaren Vale, Coonawarra, Barossa and Langhorne Creek for big red wines, Margaret River with their Cabernet Merlot blends for example, and the excellent finesse created from cool climate regions such as Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula and upcoming Canberra. Even Southern Highlands surprised me with their elegantly structured wines from the cool climate/high altitude, as well as other elegant wine making regions in NSW such as Hunter Valley and Orange. NZ (such as Central Otago’s Pinot Noir), European and International wines also play a huge part in the Australian wine industry, particuarly in the more delicately structured wines from Europe.

CONTACT :

If you wish to submit wine samples or other related material for review or re-review, please e-mail me at winehousesarah@gmail.com and I will provide a postal address to send it to. All wines well reviewed will be posted on this blog. If a wine is really not well reviewed for some reason, I will let you about it privately first.

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Cheers!