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Ed Merrison
Приєднався 2 гру 2022
Vininspo! is here to help you love wine more. It's brought to you by Ed Merrison, a wine journalist, educator, judge, presenter, guide and fan. He's uniquely qualified to pour a sense of wonder, discovery & connection into the world of wine. Sticking to the journalist’s mantra of keeping it simple, relevant, relatable and interesting, Ed encourages active participation in wine, fuelling curiosity, fostering relationships, creating memories and building a vibrant, inclusive future.
A professional writer for over 20 years, Ed's always been fascinated by connections between people and places. He studied modern languages and travelled extensively on the way to a career as a multimedia journalist.
Specialism in wine gives this skillset unparalleled potency. Ed spent a decade spearheading the education drive at Australian importer, CellarHand. He's judged at wine shows, won a Len Evans Tutorial scholarship and was Australian Dux of WSET’s Diploma program, which he continues to teach.
A professional writer for over 20 years, Ed's always been fascinated by connections between people and places. He studied modern languages and travelled extensively on the way to a career as a multimedia journalist.
Specialism in wine gives this skillset unparalleled potency. Ed spent a decade spearheading the education drive at Australian importer, CellarHand. He's judged at wine shows, won a Len Evans Tutorial scholarship and was Australian Dux of WSET’s Diploma program, which he continues to teach.
Know your étiquette! Adelaide Hills
Know your étiquette: Adelaide Hills. The excellent images by John Kruger do a lot of the talking here, as the splendour of Adelaide Hills is kind of wrapped up in the sunshine and lofty coolness of this region. Its proximity to Adelaide makes it an easy reach for tourists, who’ll find a lot to delight them among the 50-odd cellar doors nestled among these valleys.
Home to less than four-fifths of the vineyard area of Clare Valley and about one-third of the Barossa Valley, Adelaide Hills punches above its weight. Articulate regional champions such as #Petaluma founder Brian Croser, Prue Henschke and Michael Hill Smith of Shaw + Smith have contributed to its gravitas, but, really, it’s the energetic, nuanced authority of a range of wines - Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Shiraz in particular - that elicits admiration and wins accolades. It hasn’t hurt that some of McLaren Vale’s leading lights have turned to these elevated vineyards to compose crystalline whites to complement their Mediterranean-climate reds.
This AUD $38 (RRP) Chardonnay is a prime example of the flavoursome purity and tension Adelaide Hills can provide. The lion’s share comes from Murdoch Hill's estate vineyards in Oakbank and Lenswood, supplemented by fruit from Lobethal and the Piccadilly Valley.
Home to less than four-fifths of the vineyard area of Clare Valley and about one-third of the Barossa Valley, Adelaide Hills punches above its weight. Articulate regional champions such as #Petaluma founder Brian Croser, Prue Henschke and Michael Hill Smith of Shaw + Smith have contributed to its gravitas, but, really, it’s the energetic, nuanced authority of a range of wines - Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Shiraz in particular - that elicits admiration and wins accolades. It hasn’t hurt that some of McLaren Vale’s leading lights have turned to these elevated vineyards to compose crystalline whites to complement their Mediterranean-climate reds.
This AUD $38 (RRP) Chardonnay is a prime example of the flavoursome purity and tension Adelaide Hills can provide. The lion’s share comes from Murdoch Hill's estate vineyards in Oakbank and Lenswood, supplemented by fruit from Lobethal and the Piccadilly Valley.
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Know your étiquette! Corpinnat
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Well, this is a bit next-level nerdy. Not even an appellation, and something I wasn’t even aware of until relatively recently, even though it’s been going since 2017. Mind you, just a handful of growers and tiny production. Why care? Well, it’s always notable when you get a breakaway group of super-ambitious, quality-obsessed producers working hard to transcend the perceived limits of their app...
Know your étiquette! Cava
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We’re off to Spain for some traditional-method bubbles. A lot of people ask me about various sparkling wine options and which make a sound alternative to Champagne. In general, this is quite a poorly understood category, maybe because so much fizz is poured unthinkingly down throats when meets, greets and toasts are on the menu. Also, Champagne’s luxury marketing tends to give a sense that you’...
Know your étiquette! Geelong
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The Geelong region’s life as a #wine-growing area began in the mid-1800s, but it underwent a 100-year hiatus before rebirth in the mid-‘60s. Bannockburn Vineyards, planted by the Hooper family in 1974, started something truly exceptional with uncanny foresight, superb vineyards and the revelatory talent of Gary Farr, who went to establish By Farr. These two terroir powerhouses on each other’s d...
Grapes into wine: Quealy's Turbul skin-contact range
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This is an extremely interesting style of wine, and this range has turned out beautifully. As Tom McCarthy is at pains to point out, these wines are not about skins but about expressing the whole grape-the specifics of the variety and the vineyard-and the fullness of flavour, texture and personality that emerges when a meaningful period of time is part of the equation. Tom's parents Kevin McCar...
Sense of Place: The Parra gallega of Rías Baixas
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The rain in Spain falls mostly on... Galicia. And that’s part of the reason why grapegrowers employ the parra gallega - the local riff on pergola-trained vines that makes use of the region’s abundant granite - in their lush Albariño vineyards. I recently caught up with my friend Diego Ríos, the Chile-born winemaker at the helm at Bodegas Granbazán, at the iconic Finca Tremoedo just outside Camb...
Know your étiquette! Beechworth
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Named after a town in northeast Victoria, this Geographical Indication (GI) is home to just 130-odd hectares of vineyards and has an outsize reputation for the quality of its wines. Beechworth struck gold - the coveted metal kind - in 1852 and discoveries ensued in Yackandandah, Nine Mile Creek, Stanley and Wooragee. That led to prosperity hand-in-hand with flourishing 19th-century vineyards. I...
Sense of Place: O Rosal, Rías Baixas
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A Gondomar morning with Jorge Marcote: Alberto Cábaco Mariño grew up in Gondomar, where his grandfather owned a wine warehouse. After making his fortune in Galicia's fishing industry, Alberto moved back there and in 2017 embarked on an ambitious journey to establish a wine estate there. In 2018, he enlisted the help of Baiona-born ex-sommelier Jorge Marcote to help him build the dream, called B...
Sense of Place: Val do Salnés, Rías Baixas
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Rías Baixas has done an incredibly good job of portraying its lush vineyards and granite soils as ground zero for singular, refreshing Spanish white wines of place. It's been helped a lot in this regard by the fact that its pin-up grape, Albariño, is a charmingly vivacious variety with an ability to transmit these soils in pure wines of salty minerality and electric acidity. They are wines that...
Wine Show & Tell: Behind the scenes at AAVWS
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"More than just a wine show”, goes the tagline of the Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show. The show-AAVWS to its friends (and it has many)-is happy to have the claim interrogated. After all, it’s had a quiet confidence all along that its supposedly niche subject matter deserved an audience way beyond the fringe. The story of the show's genesis and evolution is a fascinating one, superbly...
Grapes into wine: Making cooler-climate Cabernets
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Cabernet Sauvignon is the world's most-planted wine grape. Mainstream popularity is not always a marker of quality, but in this case we are talking about a seriously strong leader: distinctive, intense, delicious flavour; pronounced aroma; deep colour; and architecture from tannin and acidity. Reigning supreme on the left bank of Bordeaux in southwest France, it heads up a crack team of grapes ...
Variety Show extra: Steve Flamsteed on Gamay
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It is always a pleasure to hear Steve Flamsteed talk about wine. Followers of Vininspo! have, I’m sure, taken great pleasure in tasting the fruits of his cool, calm labour. Given Steve’s fame for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, especially while at the Giant Steps helm, you might be less aware of his fondness for Gamay - whose wines, he says, should be “delicious and full of love and joy”. Back in 19...
Know your étiquette! Cru Beaujolais
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Know your étiquette: Cru Beaujolais. I know what you’re thinking: the étiquette (French for label) doesn’t even say Beaujolais. True that; a bit of a quirk, but in fact these 10 pinnacles of Beaujolais terroir are their own appellations contrôlées. Gamay doesn’t lose its sense of fun here, but we do get markedly more serious in terms of the impact of terroir on style and structure within this z...
Know your étiquette! Beaujolais
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Know your étiquette: Beaujolais. After the recent look at the Gamay grape through the lens of a Mornington Peninsula-grown wine by Eldridge, we travel to the grape’s homeland in southern Burgundy. You might recall it was formally - if not decisively - banished from Burgundy proper in the late 14th century. It's been planted in the Beaujolais region since the 17th century, and it's estimated tha...
Variety Show: Gamay
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Variety show: Gamay. The black grape of #Beaujolais has been knocked a bit over the centuries. It was famously dissed and banished from the Duchy of Burgundy back in the late 14th century. Six hundred years later, it paid the price for nouveaumania, which made Gamay synonymous with simple, fruity, frivolous wines that tasted how they were made (fast, easy...). How things have changed! Australia...
Mind your language! À la cave (in the cellar)
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Mind your language! À la cave (in the cellar)
Mind your language! Parmi les vignes (Among the vines)
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Mind your language! Parmi les vignes (Among the vines)
Know your étiquette: Burgenland Blaufränkisch
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Know your étiquette: Burgenland Blaufränkisch
Know your étiquette: Chianti Classico DOCG
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Know your étiquette: Chianti Classico DOCG
Know your étiquette: Barbera d'Alba DOC Superiore
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Know your étiquette: Barbera d'Alba DOC Superiore
another great video, full of information that make you to discover more of Austria ! and of course taste more of their wines!
great video!! thanks
this is such valuable content...please keep them coming...would love to visit the vineyard someday.
Thank you for watching. I massively appreciate the feedback - and yes, the estate is something special.
feel like opening a beaujolais now !!
great video!, discover your videos yesterday, keep going ! great with details. I'm fan of mourvedre, will be looking out for the Frankland river one. thank you Fabien
Thanks a lot, Fabian!
Outstanding contribution. Merci Danke Tack Kiitos Johnny BikeSanooK!
Wonderfully done, Ed! Love all explanations so informative. I
Thank you, Tim!
Lovely work, Ed!
😇 'promosm'
Man, your way of educating is just superb. Such nice videos!
Man, your way of giving uplifting feedback is just superb! Thanks a lot for watching, and for the comment. Would love it if you’d share it, if you think others will get something out of it.
Thanks for sharing this valuable video. A question: You dont use a chiller during fermentation. This does not harm to aromas which they may evaporate at high temperatures of fermentation?
In the subtitles from 3.14 - 3.16 you read "handsome" French intern, but if you listen closely it is just a French intern. He is a handsome garçon though, nice touch.
Gerry is the most brilliant winemaker. Her insights are beautifully articulated
Was yeast added at all? It wasn't shown in video. Also was sugar added to get that ending alcohol content? Thanks!
No, in this case no yeast was added as the must was allowed to ferment naturally. This is also called wild or spontaneous fermentation - the same as when we say "fermented with native/indigenous yeasts". The yeasts naturally present in the winery/vineyard get to work on their own!
This video was quite informative and intriguing. Thank you for sharing . I love Pinot Noir 🍷!
Thank you for watching and commenting. And so do I!
Thank you for watching, and leaving a comment!
What are they using to top off the barrel? Is it extra pinot noir they have stored somewhere? Or is it just grape juice
Yep, more Pinot Noir - a constant job…
Nailed it again Ed. I would like to know more about sweet wines and the variation in flavour profiles from Germany, Austria, Italy through to Hungary and on to our own Rutherglen. Fascinating styles. I have a 99 Yquem (750ml) rolling around should I leave it, sell it or drink it with you? Keep up the informative work it is excellent.
Nice video, thanks. A 60-year vine, wow! But why is it called "Saint Joseph"?
Love Pinot Noir! thanks for sharing
Thank you - I love it, too. Thank you for watching.