The Little Rickshaw, Aldinga
A lovely meal We booked dinner at The Little Rickshaw recently as a Kris Kringle Xmas gift for my sister Steph and husband Ian. It’s a favourite of ours but they hadn’t eaten there before and, of course, we were all looking forward to it! Eating out is such a treat. We weren’t disappointed. On […]
MADELEINES
MADELEINE DE PROUST – by Indi Noon Growing up a winemaker’s daughter, I have often rolled my eyes at my parents’ seemingly excessive concern of the handling of their products. If I were to take a bottle of wine to a dinner party for example, I would be thoroughly interrogated. “How far are you travelling?” […]
Wine Blast Podcast
Listening to the Wine Blast Podcast by Indi Noon I had just spent one thrilling month volunteering in a safari park in Zimbabwe. I arrived home electrified by everything I had experienced and absolutely exhausted. It was about midnight by the time we pulled into the driveway. Despite the long journey and the jet lag, […]
A visit to our barrel cooperage
My brother’s visit to our barrel supplier in France by Indi Noon Back in September, while I was picking grapes in the Alsatian mountains, my brother was working a vintage of his own. Harper had landed a cellar-hand job for the harvest season at Chateau Pontet-Canet in Pauillac, Bordeaux. Before leaving Australia, Harper had accompanied […]
Ginger Moon Canteen
A lovely restaurant meal in Bali We recently had a week in Bali to relax after the cellar door opening period was over. We stayed at a villa in Jimbaran and it was wonderful. We barely left the estate; just swimming and reading our books and it was a great way to recharge. We did […]
Indi in Sicily
An excerpt from Indi’s travel diary It went something like this: I squeezed my way onto the midday bus from Catina Airport to Palermo, hit shuffle on the “Best Italian Hits Of All Time” playlist, and napped most of the 2-hour journey, the early morning flight taking its toll on me. Little did I know […]
A good read
A great new guide book by Jane Lopes & Jonathan Ross – How to Drink Australian. Harper Noon. Now I’m not just saying this because dad is included in the book! I took this book with me to Western Australia when I went to work the harvest, to give me some recommendations of wineries to […]
Highlights of our NZ holiday
(Photo above – a view to the lake, Queenstown.) Highlights of our 2025 family trip to New Zealand by Indi Noon. As Harper and I have now entered what I call “Chapter 2” of our lives, “Chapter 1” being our schooling years, mustering all four family members under one roof has become a little bit […]
A harvest in Alsace, by Indi Noon
Photo: (Harvest festival in the village of Barr 2024) August 2024, Location: Brisbane Airport. Destination: Paris. I remember arriving at Brisbane International Terminal four hours early that morning. The check-in gates weren’t even open so I perched myself on a bench outside the departing gate for a while and recall being riddled with excitement, uncertainty, […]
Sexism, racism, the Big C, Dementia
The World Health Organisation and all the public health authorities have been slowly reducing the ‘safe drinking guidelines’ for years. It’s a global conspiracy…not an actual conspiracy but an unspoken risk-aversion state of mind which pervades all public health thinking. Their approach is “If there’s any chance of harm, we’d better warn people”. Okay but […]