ANGUS O'LOUGHLIN

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“$60 retail?!” 🥂 A single-vineyard Yarra Valley sparkling, fewer than 3,000 bottles made, and a blind tasting that genuinely surprised Carlos.

A $20 bottle of Prosecco or a bottle of Moët. Which would you actually enjoy more? 🥂 Take away the label, the price and the marketing, and the answer might surprise you.

We’re teaming up with International Day of People with Disability @idpwd_au

What does 30-year-old Cabernet Sauvignon actually taste like? Fresh fruit begins to make way for tertiary flavours like leather, tobacco, earth and mushroom. But only if the wine has aged well…

Five sparkling wines. Two very different favourites. One Master Sommelier under pressure. 👀🍾 From Prosecco to Australian sparkling and Champagne Turns out the bottle you’d choose without the label might not be the one you expected.

Is Champagne actually better, or are we just paying for the label? 🍾 We lined up Prosecco, Australian sparkling and Champagne, hid the bottles and put a Master Sommelier to the test. No labels. No prices. Nowhere to hide.

A HIGHLY requested new episode drops tomorrow... 🥂🍾

How does wine survive for almost 100 years? Fortification, ageing, oxygen, corks and a winemaking process designed to create something that can outlive generations. The crazy part is that bottles like this weren’t created to become museum pieces.

Imagine keeping a bottle for almost 100 years… Then two idiots come along and pull the cork. 😂🍷 Once it’s open, there’s no going back.

Why do we store wine horizontally? 🍾 It’s not about slowly introducing oxygen into the bottle. The real reason is far simpler, and far more important if you want your wine to survive for 30 years.

The things your body does to compensate without you even realising 👀 Our conversation with @matt_toms got into the little adaptations, habits and physical responses that can become completely normal when you’re living with disability.

Same grape. Same vintage. Four very different outcomes. 🍷 We opened four Australian Cabernet Sauvignons from 1996 to discover what 30 years does to a bottle of wine.

Can Australian Cabernet Sauvignon still deliver after 30 years? 🍷 We put four bottles from the brilliant 1996 vintage side by side to see which had survived, which had evolved and which had simply run out of time.

Would you pay $450 to drink something made in 1927? Because once you start thinking about what has happened in the world since this wine was made, the price suddenly feels a little different. This isn’t just an old bottle. It’s drinkable history.

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t what’s happening right now. It’s wondering what might happen next. @_matt_toms_ opens up about the fear that can come with not knowing how a disability may progress, and how much mental space that uncertainty can take up.

What wine would you pair with a Scotch egg? 🥚🍷 Rich sausage, a soft-centred egg and plenty of savoury flavour make this much more difficult than it looks. We put one of Britain’s greatest pub snacks to the test at Ye Olde Wine Shades in London.

What do you pair with a wine that’s nearly 100 years old? Apparently this question is much harder than it sounds 😂 A 1927 bottle, two very different opinions and one tasting we’re probably never going to replicate.

We opened a bottle from 1927. Yes, you read that correctly. Nearly 100 years old, still sealed, and carrying almost a century of history inside it.

Disability doesn’t look or feel the same every day. For @_matt_toms_, there are days where capacity is high and things feel manageable, and others where his physical disability has a much bigger impact.