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Wine Bites Magazine


Reviews, tips, tricks, & more. Join us as we share our love for good wine!
Tips & Tricks

Video Wine Tip: Broken Cork Stuck in Your Bottle of Filthy Good Vino? Use a Coat Hanger!

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Tips & Tricks

Using a Vintage Chart to Pick Wines Sucks … Here’s a Better Way!

What went wrong?
BEWARE, DANGER LIES AHEAD! THE VINTAGE CHART!

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Wine Bites

The Sommelier is Dead, Long Live Rob Higgs!! A Fantasmagorical Creation

Creativity & passion, like an alien, has inseminated Rob Higgs‘ brain! He has given birth to a fantasmagorical creation. It is the replacement for the Sommelier!

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Tips & Tricks

Opening a Bottle of Wine Tip 1: “Use a Power Drill, It’s Just Easier”

A great mate of mine, Adrian, also a winemaker, visited a couple of months back. As is the norm when a couple of ex-winemakers get together, the Filthy Good Vino comes out of the cellar.

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Tips & Tricks

Dreams do come TRUE! My 300 bottle Wine Cellar is done! Awesome!

For years I’ve been wanting to have my own cellar to store all my #FilthyGoodVino.  Finally it’s done. A cellar that will store 300 bottles of the finest wines from the collection that are ready to drink. Material and Specifcations included!

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Tips & Tricks

Wine Tips: Filthy Good Vino’s Best Technique for Cleaning Wine Glasses

Just got a couple of these to help me clean my wine glasses!

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The Winemaking Years

Vintage 1999 Domaine Bernard Moreau in Chassagne-Montrachet, Burgundy, France

Every winter Australian winemakers head to the Northern Hemisphere in their droves

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Champagne Devaux Vintage 1999 for Wine Decoded by Paul Kaan Feature
The Winemaking Years

Vintage 1998 Champagne Devaux, Bur-sur-Seine and Legras et Haas, Chouilly in the Côte des Blancs

Working in Champagne brought pain & acid guts at one extreme. Inspiration & yumminess at the other

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Tasting Reserve Chardonnay out of Barrel at Yering Station 1999 for Wine Decoded by Paul Kaan Feature
The Winemaking Years

Vintage 1998 – 2000 Yering Station in the Yarra Valley

Take a moment, close your eyes and picture your dream winemaking gig!

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The Winemaking Years

Vintage 1997 Driftwood Estate, Margaret River and Happ’s Vineyard Karridale

There are 5 main industries in Marg’s: the Wine Industry, Tourism, Growing Dope, Surfing x 2

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The Winemaking Years

Vintage 1996 A Moldovan Vintage Retrospective

It was the Best of Wines, It was the Worst of Wines!

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The Winemaking Years

1996 Yarra Yering – Yarra Valley

Talk about a radical shift in thinking, pushing boundaries and certainly, making wine, with a single-minded goal of achieving excellence.

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