Wine With Leigh https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home Wine stories to love Rare Wine Portfolio Chateau Rausan Segla 1967 Château Latour 2000 Opus One 1998 Opus One 1996 Contact Me Whom I Do It With Helping out Friends Your First Proper Cellar: Twenty-Four Bottles, No Gadgets, No Nonsense Why Wine Tastes Better at the Cellar Door (and What to Do About It) The Crown Seal’s Secret Double Life How Do I Find The Wines The Screwcap Rebellion: How the Clare Valley Changed Wine What ‘Old Vine’ Actually Means in the Barossa The Bottle Is Not a Pause Button How to Open a Thirty-Year-Old Bottle Without Destroying It How Long to Decant an Old Red — and When Not To How I do it Where a Bottle Should Sleep: Wine Storage in an Australian Climate The Breathing Myth: Why ‘Letting It Breathe’ Does Almost Nothing What Causes a Great Wine Vintage? Where I Drink Who I Drink With Ancient Origins of Wine Same Grape, Different Wine: Why One Variety Can Taste Like Twelve What a Closure Tells You Before You Open the Bottle Penfolds Bin60A 2004 Cans, Kegs and the Wine You Drink by the Glass The Fault List: Everything That Can Be Wrong With a Bottle That Isn’t Cork Taint Why Collectors Photograph Corks Whisky Cask Investment: Read This Before You Sign Anything What “Corked” Actually Means — And What It Doesn’t The Tree That Grows Bottle Stoppers Tasmania: How an Island Became Australia’s Cool-Climate Answer Beechworth, Whitfield and the Altitude Corridor: Victoria’s Cool-Climate Case Diam, Synthetics and the Rise of the Engineered Cork The End-of-Financial-Year Cellar Review: Four Jobs, One Weekend, Once a Year How to Learn About Wine Fast: The Honest Shortcuts The Counterfeit Files: How Fake Wine Gives Itself Away The Bag-in-Box Freshness Paradox There Is No Best Wine Closure. There Is Only the Best Match. Hunter Valley Semillon: The Most Underrated Ageing White in the World Heat Degree Days and Diurnal Range: How to Actually Read a Wine Region Clare Valley Riesling: Why Polish Hill River Tastes Different to Watervale Reduction and Oxidation: The Two Ditches Either Side of the Road Rookie to Expert: How to Train Your Palate Like the Professionals Do What a Screwcap Liner Tells You About the Winemaker’s Intentions Terroir Talk: The Influence of Environment on Wine