2010-03-14 08:47
“My dog has no nose.”“How does he smell?”“Awful.”There is a point to this ancient gag but we’ll get to it later.The exterior of the cellar door at E… Read More
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2010-01-14 23:43
There are many words to describe Canberra district wines: ‘boutique’, ‘cool-climate’ and ‘intimate scale’ are popular in tourist brochures, while the phra… Read More
2009-11-21 23:51
Capital Wines is a joint venture between Jennie and Mark Mooney of Grazing restaurant Gundaroo and Andrew and Marion McEwin’s Kyeema Wines, so they should know a thing or two about mak… Read More
2009-11-21 23:51
Okay, let’s get the obvious question out of the way first. No, we didn’t get to try Tim Kirk’s fabled shiraz viognier. Yes, it was a little disappointing but hardly surpris… Read More
2009-11-21 23:50
I wasn’t in the best mood for wine tasting the day we visited Brindabella Hills Winery. It was a bitter Canberra winter’s day and Our Man and I had a wide-ranging argument discus… Read More
2009-11-21 23:50
Strictly speaking Barton Estate shouldn’t be in the A2Z because it isn’t open to the public – I was thrown by a couple of web entries that suggested you could arrange tasti… Read More
2009-11-21 23:49
Talk about an unexpected discovery. Who’d have guessed acclaimed actor, writer and director, Ben Affleck has further cemented his claim to renaissance man status with a foray into Canb… Read More
2009-11-21 23:48
We’ve lived in Canberra for a couple of years now but our knowledge of the local grape is shamefully lacking. Having visited one or two wineries in a very haphazard way, and with littl… Read More
2009-11-15 22:00
It’s been some time since we visited Dionysus, so I’m going to have to rely on my crap scant notes and even crappier less than perfect memory. The mere suggestion that we should… Read More
2009-10-05 07:52
On a wet, icy Saturday night we’re playing ‘spot the winemaker’ in old Parliament House. It goes something like this: no tie, expensive but rumpled suit that looks as thou… Read More
2009-09-21 00:19
Okay, so this is another winery that really shouldn't be on the list, but...Our Man and I first came across Collector Wines at the Cafe in the House* annual goat BBQ. It went down very smo… Read More
2009-07-28 22:18
Towards the end of May, I noticed the Fireside Festival website was still carrying information for August 2008. Having survived a memorable long weekend during Stanthorpe’s Brass Monk… Read More
2009-07-12 07:00
Away for a week or so Read More
2009-07-08 22:00
During a recycling purge, I grabbed an old copy CityNews that was open at a Colliers International ad for “New York Style Offices” in Civic, Canberra's de facto CBD. Included wit… Read More
2009-07-04 06:55
And what better way to mark the occasion than a bank commercial from the 1980s? Tags:Canberra, State of Origin,jingoism, four-peat Read More
2009-07-02 04:21
Then there are the bloggers.In return for their free content, we pretty much get what we’ve paid for - something of such limited intellectual value as to be barely discernible from mas… Read More
2009-06-18 00:57
Would it be wrong to suggest that the two week ‘resting’ of The Chaser’s War on Everything and its replacement with Tracey Ullman's State of the Union, confirms that the f… Read More
2009-06-16 09:44
One of the alternative straplines* for Canberra I’ve been trying to encourage is, “Canberra - where the middle-class lost their manners”. It’s a touch more peppy than… Read More
2009-06-12 07:47
The ABC's Amanda Duthie has been removed from her position as head of TV comedy because of the controversy surrounding The Chaser's Make a Realistic Wish sketch. The announcement was made by… Read More
2009-06-11 04:58
I watched The Chaser’s War on Everything on Wednesday night and found the skit on the Make a Realistic Wish Foundation funny.The line “they're only going to die anyway” cra… Read More
2009-06-09 09:01
You’re in the Book Grocer at Kingston trying to decide whether you don’t have time to read the Sebastian Faulks Bond remix or Mark Twain’s adventures in Australia when Thro… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
If you're browsing some of the cellar door lists for Canberra, you might come across England’s Creek and Four Winds Vineyard. Both grow grapes and Four Winds does produce wine under i… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Forgive the above title, it's colloquial and catchy but aside from that complete bullshit. Our self-assigned mission to visit all the cellar doors in the Canberra region has meant that casa… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Canberra is the national headquarters of stakeholder engagement, thought leadership and the run-on sentence. This city is awash with jargon, wherein words such as actionable, facilitate and… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
POTUS Briefing Document #1029 Subsection (W)Local Guide to CanberraMr President,As requested by Agent Leiter and Mr Ballweight from the Australian Taxation Office, I have provided a few note… Read More
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