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Nick Ryan

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As seen in: The Telegraph, Netflix Tudum, News.com.au, Stuff.co.nz, The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun, The Australian, Investor's Business Daily, The Courier-Mail, The Money Puzzle and
Wine Writer for The Australian, GQ, Gourmet Traveller Wine and Wine Business Monthly...and banging out a weekly column in the Sunday Mail.
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Sam Neill (1947–2026): A true vigneron

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By Nick Ryan Verified
| The World of Fine Wine Verified
Sam Neill and friend at The Fusilier Vineyard, Bannockburn, Central Otago. Photography by Ben Ruffell. Sam Neill was a fine actor and “a very nice man,” says Nick Ryan, but many of his “proudest achievements sprang from the soil.” One night in a Pigalle bar, the kind of place where the andouillette and the wine are aromatically interchangeable, I noticed the waitress had been eyeing one member of our antipodean foursome strangely from the time we’d sat down.
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Who Pete Fraser really was

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By Nick Ryan Verified
| The World of Fine Wine Verified
"Peter Fraser stood still and quiet long enough in a special place to hear what it was saying and used his own talents to share that with us." Photography courtesy of Yangarra. On last November’s third Monday, I facetiously told my friend Pete Fraser that he owed me lifelong gratitude. I’d driven three hours to taste 15 vintages of his High Sands Grenache, eat a quick lunch, and drive three more home.
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The rewards of patience and minor masterpieces

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By Nick Ryan Verified
| The World of Fine Wine Verified
Nick Ryan on the lessons he learned after joining the tasting team for the ninth edition of Penfolds’ The Rewards of Patience. The invitation to taste wines made beneath your feet in inverse hemispheres can be reasonably questioned but unwisely declined. Over the past 18 months, I’ve tasted through seven decades of Cabernet Sauvignon from the dark red soils of Coonawarra overlooking the Place de la Concorde, once stained a similar color by the spurting jugulars of the French aristocracy.
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