Drink Tank - Noble Rot

Random outpourings, disgorgements and noble rot – what the Wine & Spirit team found lurking in the darker corners of the drinks world.

• Anthony Rose's Wine People

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-03-2008)

  Tim and Judy Finn of Neudorf in Nelson, New..

• Letters

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-12-2007)

  Open letter to Professor Ian Gilmore, Chairman, Alcohol Health Alliance

  As you prepare to launch the Alcohol Health Alliance, which plans to lobby government for, inter alia, a 10 per cent tax increase on alcoholic drinks, increases in business regulation and health..

• Sign of the times

  Author: Closing a border opens old wounds, reports Jane Pa

  (01-12-2007)

  Victims of gun crime, destitute and homeless - a group of Australian producers are suffering badly at the hands of the Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation. A boundary dispute in Coonawarra spanning 17 years has finally reached its conclusion: to delete the Geographical Indication of Penola.

• Reviews

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-11-2007)

  The Art of Drinking Edited by Philippa Glanville and Sophie Lee V&A Publications,..

• Taste the emulsion, then the puerile

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-11-2007)

  Tom Bruce-Gardyne finds wine does not pair well with automated spell..

• Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine

  Author: Edited by Professor Barry Smith (Signal Press)

  (01-10-2007)

  Around the turn of the millennium, a couple of physics professors dreamt up an elaborate hoax they hoped would expose the intellectual emptiness of a certain kind of post-modern philosophy. The hoax involved a spoof academic paper written by the pair ( American Alan Sokal and Belgian Jean..

• Dr Feelgood

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-09-2007)

  The latest medical evidence to justify your decadent..

• Owls, rafts and a rehab centre, now that's thinking outside the wine box

  Author: Claire Hu

  (01-09-2007)

  Thanks to a new trend that's sweeping the nation, many people are more interested in wine boxes than the actual contents. Claire Hu investigated their alterior uses.

• Oak chips and crustacea: my life as an amateur winemaker

  Author: Simon Woods

  (23-07-2007)

  Can you really make wine at home with a mail order kit and some water?

• Seaweed tonic helps put the fun back into fungals

  Author: Monty Waldin

  (01-06-2007)

  A New Zealand winery finds seaweed makes great vineyard..