The Perth Convention Exhibition Centre is cooking up a storm on both sides of the plate with its kitchen dominating the annual Apprentice Chef of the Year competition, held last week.
Grange lovers listen up. Penfolds has announced it will be including Western Australia in its ultimate after sales service – the Penfolds Recorking Clinic.
Food and wine matching used to be a fairly predictable affair – only white wine with white meat, don’t cook something spicy and never ever think about breaking the rules.
January 27 this year marked the 250th anniversary of the birth Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Perth is about to appreciate that the great composer has more to teach us than music.
Talented winemaker Gordon Parker, who has worked at prestigious Great Southern wineries such as Plantagenet and Amberley, has forged his own label, Gordon parker Wines, and is making quite a stir.
An already stellar year is getting better for Mt Barker producer Xabregas Wines, which has just won three awards at the highly acclaimed International Wine Challenge 2006 in London.
Winemakers in the state’s southern regions have joined their colleagues in the north by closing the chapter on vintage 2006. And what an interesting vintage it has been.
The end to vintage 2006 can’t come soon enough for winemakers in Margaret River and surrounding areas, but the end of harvest also gives the rest of us a chance to celebrate.
The debate over cork and stevlin may finally have been put to rest in Western Australia, but it has been enthusiastically replaced by argument over the merits of cleanskins – wine that is sold without a label, at a lower cost.
The Moore River area is the state’s hottest property in the olive game, with sales of premium olives continuing to climb and the diversification of the products from the region finding new markets in Australia and overseas.
Swan Valley and Regional Winemakers Association of WA president Arch Kosovich will this week tell his fellow winemakers 2006 has been a pretty good year.
Western Australian winery Howard Park is the only Australian wine producer to be awarded gold at the 2006 Wine Masters Challenge – VIII Concurso Mundial de Vinhos in Portugal.
With a trophy cabinet full of medals and their sights set on capitalising on another vintage, a new release wine comes at an interesting time for Mount Barker winery, Xabregas.
If you’re still eating regular ice-cream then unfortunately you seem to have missed the gelato revolution that is sweeping dessert circles Australia wide.
Almost a year after opening in Mt Hawthorn, Divido Restaurant has hit its straps and is offering some of the most interesting Italian-inspired food and wine this side of the Spanish Steps.
The Taste of the Valley Festival held every April in the Swan Valley brings together all of the best bits of the region’s festival held throughout the year. It’s not too big, not too short and often features some very unique events.
The precious black truffles grown by the Wine and Truffle Company in Manjimup are prized for the similarities to the black Perigord Truffles of France.
After several months trading at their Collie Street address, owner/proprietor Michael Della Penna and the team behind The Gelato Company in Fremantle are moving.
On a typically beautiful Saturday afternoon in the Swan Valley, a group of people gather around a table at Sandalford Winery, drinking and discussing the various complexities of Australian shiraz.
