The Wine Wank

It was interesting this week to pick up the paper and see a Seebohm featuring on both the front and back pages. One was an attractive Olympi...

Yes, yes. I know. It’s been a while. So, a belated welcome to 2012 and welcome back to The W@nk. The simple reason behind the lack of p...

I’ve just returned from a nice little trip to Northern Tasmania to help celebrate the old girl’s 60th birthday. We ate what could have been ...

My buddy, Goose, came across this cracker... It clearly doesn't require any commentary from me.

A wine jerk I met recently made the absurd claim that he would only drink Cabernet Sauvignon from the Coonawarra. Now, I am all for nar...

I saw Cold Chisel play on Tuesday night. Oh, we’ve shared some history, this band and I. I’d seen them here, at the same venue, 13 years ear...

I don’t have much to say this week. I’ve been left deeply depressed by the Wallabies’ performance at the Rugby World Cup and an All Black do...

I’m on a bit of a Pinot run at the moment.  It must be the weather. One week, the first wave of summer is prematurely rollin...

Over the weekend, while Irish eyes were smiling all over the Auckland waterfront, my Australian eyes were crying in Bris...

The name of this mob pretty much describes every one of my Saturday nights between 1995 and 1999. And, if I'm honest, pretty much exa...

This week's review is dedicated to the letter "Y". Well, not the letter so much as the question. Why would you bother buy...

Well my name's John Lee Pettimore. Same as my daddy and his daddy before. Ok. Not really. But since today is Internatio...

In 1994, I was 17 and it was a very good year. The Reds won the Super 10. The Maroons won the Origin. The world’s best...

By all accounts, the collapse of society as we know it is imminent. The world seems to have finally come to the realisation...

As I was walking between bus and business this morning, I crossed paths with a bloke all trussed up with a trendy scarf wrapped around his n...

This week, Suncorp Stadium (or Langcorp Parkium for the traditionalists) will play host to the footy match, and the football player, of the ...

Over Lizzy's long weekend, I decided to take the family off to the beach in northern NSW. Typically, the weather sucked and it was so c...

After a glut of recent reds, I was going to write up a white this week. I swear. But Brisbane is suddenly experiencing some Pearl Harbour-...