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What are Vegan-Friendly Wines?
There’s a growing movement around Australia and beyond our shores to understand how our wine and food are produced. Concerns about allergies, personal taste preferences, and sometimes just needing a better understanding of the process, can all lead wine lovers to seek out more information about what’s actually in their favourite drop.
Continue »Top Tips for Cellaring Wine
The majority of wines are consumed within hours of purchase! Hard to believe, but true. For those true collectors, there’s often nothing more satisfying than laying down your treasured wine purchases in the cellar, waiting in anticipation for the wines to reach their peak drinking conditions and letting the wine evolve further in the bottle.
Continue »How long does red wine last after opened?
At Redman’s busy cellar door in Coonawarra, we’re constantly asked questions about how wine lovers can improve their experience of wine in their own home – queries like how long to store wine and how do you know when a bottle has reached its peak. Here, we answer a very common question – how long can you keep a bottle of Red(man) once it’s opened?
Continue »How to Open Old Wine
Follow our winemaker Dan Redman’s failsafe tips to make sure you get maximum enjoyment out of that special bottle you’ve been patiently cellaring.
Continue »What makes Coonawarra wine so special?
Discover our region and why our famous terra rossa soil produces some of Australia’s best wines.
Continue »50 Years of Redman Shiraz Tasting Notes
To mark the 50th birthday of Redman Wines last year we went through a 50-year line up of old Redman wines with esteemed wine critic James Halliday.
Continue »The A – Z of Wine Terms
Wine can often be intimidating with loads of terms that make it hard to understand the pomp and language that winemakers use. Our winemaker Dan Redman breaks down the A-Z of some of the most common wine terms and explains what they mean in layman’s language.
Continue »Redmans’ Winemaking Points of Difference
Making wine is a universal practice – it’s made in almost every country on the planet. The overarching process for all wine producers looks like this: grow the grapes, ferment the grapes = bottle the magic liquid. But what stands all wineries apart from each other are the idiosyncrasies in each producer’s winemaking practice. At Redman, our points of difference occur at each touch point of the process. And there are three main differences that can be attributed to the Redman way. Continue »Why use a wine decanter?
Everyone has one hiding in the back of the pantry, right? That wedding present used three or four times and is now gathering dust. Despite its fall from fashion over the last 10 years or so, a wine decanter does serve a purpose and can improve the overall experience of your wine consumption.
Continue »Large Format Wine Bottles - all you need to know!
If you've ever had the good fortune of enjoying a glass of wine poured from a large format bottle, you'll know how impressive it can be. And coming into the festive season, these larger wine bottles make perfect gifts for the tricky-to-buy-for friends and work mates. Large format bottles also make a very clever solution to fill the glasses of 37 family members sitting around the celebratory table (and to ensure your own glass is full while you’re at it!).
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