The John Elliott film crew recently interviewed Aldo Tasca and his son Paul who own and operate this popular wine and liquor retail shop in Lygon Street where Aldo’s other son Fabio also works in the business. With the summer period fast approaching, Lygon Street’s BYO restaurants become very popular and Bottega Tasca has a wide range of wines, in both quality and price, to suit your palate and wallet.

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Sir Henry Jones would have been very proud to learn that 31 year old Southern Tasmanian winemaker Nick Glaetzer, produced the first Tasmanian  shiraz to win the prestigious wine industry award, The Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy for the best young Australian red wine. While the Glaetzer wine – making family have been in the Barossa Valley since the 1880s, Nick moved to Tasmania 6 years ago to start his own vineyard in southern Tasmania trading under the name of Glaetzer-Dixon .

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The John Elliott film crew recently visited two well known and popular Carlton food and wine establishments, Jimmy Watsons Wine Bar (owned and managed by the Watson family since 1935) and Bottega Tasca owned by Aldo Tasca and his two sons, Paul and Fabio.

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Recently I posted an article on Richard Wiesener’s wife Diney’s French cooking skills. This week its Richard’s turn where he explains his passion for buying, storing and drinking quality French wines. After living in Southern France for 30 years I can assure you he has a superb cellar.

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Diney Wiesener, the Australian born wife of my long term friend Richard Wiesener (ex McKinseys and Henry JonesIXL) has been living in the  Provencal region of South France for 30 years. Diney is an outstanding cook. Her friends, who own the Mirabeau Wine vineyards at Pourcieux near where she and Richard live, recently produced a series of video recordings on Dineys food cooking skills.

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As I rank good Australian Shiraz’s as world quality I was pleased to see that a 2005 Chateau Tanunda vintage shiraz was voted best shiraz at the recent International Wine and Spirit Competition where judges had wines from 80 countries to taste and assess.

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Listed below are what I believe are the greatest wines in Australia.
I have not tried to designate particular years rather the best in each variety over time.
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This video is part of our ongoing series covering the Great Wineries of the prestigious Coonawarra Region.

This week JDE reviews the multi-award winning Majella Wines

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Another installment in our ongoing series covering the Great Wineries of the prestigious Coonawarra Region.

This week JDE reviews Balnaves of Coonawarra.
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Punters Corner in the Coonawarra region.

Centrally located in Australia’s premium wine district of Coonawarra, Punters Corner is a boutique winery and home of the 2000 Jimmy Watson Trophy.
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I purchased Henry Jones IXL in December 1972. Clearly the biggest asset we had was in South Africa where I had done a very detailed evaluation and Richard Wiesener and I spent the next several months in early 1973 looking to sell the business because we had purchased Henry Jones with a very highly geared situation, $6 million of equity and around $30 million of debt. We were keen to repay the debt by selling off the South African business.

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There are two great wine producing regions in France, Bordeaux and Burgundy. They produce very different wines and have very different systems of handling the bottling and distribution of the wines.
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