The Riesling Queen is BACK! Hannah and Terri talk Tuscan wines, finding wonderfully cheap wine, and not turning your nose up at wine from surprising regions - plus get into some gossip about success, smutty videos and Taylor Swift (of course). Happy listening!

What we’re drinking:

• 2016 Montauto Ciliegiolo Sangiovese
• 2015 Piccini Sasso Al Poggio

What we’ve been drinking lately:

• Giesen Riesling - Marlborough, NZ (Hannah)
• Hannah’s birthday gins:
  • Dry Island Gin - Four Pillars x Herno
  • Settlers Artisan Yuzu Gin
  • Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz Gin 2018
  • Archie Rose Signature Dry Gin
  • The Botanist Islay Dry Gin
  • Tanqueray London Dry Gin
• 2018 The Winery of Good Hope, Whole Berry Pinotage - Coastal Region, South Africa (Terri)
• Stomping Ground x Blackhearts & Sparrows ‘Bramble On’ Dark Sour (Terri)

Where we’ve been drinking lately:

• Revel HQ Events: Taste of Tuscany

What we’ve been watching/reading/listening to:

• How to Fail and Almost Everything and Still Win Big, by Scott Adams (Hannah)
• The Hunting on SBS (Hannah)
• Hysterical Literature (Hannah)
• Shameless podcast (Terri)
• Lover, by Taylor Swift

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What's your take on root beer? Do you turn to a hot toddy to cure your winter woes?
Are Margranitas™ the next big thing? And will the Booze Hags ever recover from their tragic disagreement over the latest Taylor Swift single? All this and more as we catch up this week betwixt Cassie's high-flying adventures...

What we’re drinking:

• Blackhearts & Sparrows x Sailors Grave Brewing Root Beer
• Hot Toddies

What we’ve been drinking lately:

• Kereru Brewing Company Feijoa Weisse (Cass)
• Garage Project White Mischief Sour Ale (Cass & Terri)
• 2018 Les Fruits Gonzo - Adelaide Hills, SA (Terri)
• Sailors Grave Brewing Peach Melba Pavlova Cream Sour (Terri)
• Blood Moon Wines ‘Eruption!’ Cabernet Franc, Sunbury VIC (Terri)

Where we’ve been drinking lately:

• Smiths Craft Beer House, Queenstown NZ (Cass)
• Tanoshi Teppan and Sake Bar, Queenstown NZ (Cass)
• AmiGos Mexican Grill, Wanaka NZ (Cass)
• Rippon Vineyard & Winery, Wanaka NZ (Cass)
• Smithward, Collingwood VIC (Terri)

What we’ve been watching/reading/listening to:

• The Bold Type (Cass)
• Breaking Badly by Georgie Dent (Cass)
• Lover by Taylor Swift
• Little Women trailer (Cass)

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Did you know that Durif and Petite Sirah are exactly the same variety? Are you seriously over the gloomy, dark days of winter? How’s your Instagram Collections game? We’re talking all this and more in this week’s episode of your favourite boozy podcast!

What we’re drinking: 2017 Scion ‘Fortrose’ Durif, Rutherglen VIC

What we’ve been drinking lately:

• 2018 Unico Zelo Truffle Hound Nebbiolo/Barbera, Clare Valley SA (Terri)
• 2018 Xavier Goodridge Procrastinator Pinot Gris, Hentey VIC (Cass)
• Bodriggy Brewing Co Space Milk Volume 4 - Apricot, Marigold & Almond Sour (Cass)

Where we’ve been drinking lately:

• Grosvenor Hotel, St Kilda East (Cass)

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It's a bumper episode this week guys! We try and make sense of the whole Vin de France category and discover why this historically disregarded wine might actually be a hidden gem. Plus, Terri meets a wine idol who completely lives up to her expectations and Cass gets sucked in to another season of reality TV.

What we’re drinking: NV Jeff Carrel Bistrologie, Red Blend, France

What we’ve been drinking lately:

• 2016 Stephane Aviron Fleurie Gamay, Beaujolais France (Cass)
• Dolcetto (Cass)
• 2016 Campagnola Valpolicella Ripasso DOCG, Corvina, Rondinella, Molinara, Veneto (Cass)
• 2017 G.D Varja, Barbera, Nebbiolo, Dolcetto, Langhe Rosso DOC, Piemonte (Cass)
• 2017 Willow Creek Vineyard Pinot Noir, Mornington Peninsula VIC (Cass)
• 2016 Josetta Saffirio Nebbiolo, Langhe DOC (Cass)
• 2016 Domaine Mee Godard Morgon Grand Cras, Beaujolais France (Cass)
• Brave New Wine (Terri)

Where we’ve been drinking lately:

• Bellota Wine Bar, South Melbourne (Cass)
• Park Street Pasta & Wine, South Melbourne (Cass)
• Marion, Fitzroy (Cass)
• Act of Wine, Southbank (Terri)

What we’ve been watching/reading/listening to:

• Australian Survivor, Season 4 (Cass)
• The Bachelor Australia, Season 7 (Cass)
• The Au Pair, Emma Rous (Cass)
• Life Uncut podcast (Cass)
• The Reality Bite podcast (Cass)
• Ladies, We Need to Talk: Esther Perel – how to have a hard conversation (Terri)

Further reading:

• Vin de France: Free the winemaker by Benjamin Lewin, Decanter
• Decoding French Wine Labels and Terms by Wine Folly

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This week we tested out our tastebuds and wine-knowledge by hosting a blind wine tasting event. Our goal was to deduce the variety of the wine we were tasting. Let's just say one half of the Booze Hags would smash the Court of Master Sommeliers exam, the other ... would not.

What we’re drinking: 2018 Unico Zelo Esoterico (Riverland, South Australia) 

What we’ve been drinking lately:

• 2011 Domaine Trapet Riquewihr Riesling (Alsace, France)
• 2018 Villa Wolf Gewürztraminer (Pfalz, Germany)
• 2017 Latta Vino Non Dos Pinot Noir (Coghills Creek, Victoria)
• 2017 Esquinas de Argento Malbec (Mendoza, Argentina)
• 2017 Architects Of Wine Kersbrook Nebbiolo (Adelaide Hills, South Australia)
• 2016 Caparzo Sangiovese (Tuscany, Italy)

What we’ve been watching/reading/listening to:

• Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan (Terri)
• Fleabag, Season 1 (Terri)

Further reading:

• Host Your Own Blind Wine Tasting Party Wine Folly
• Blind Wine Tasting Grid Wine Folly
• Natural Disasters podcast, Episode 27: Adam & MAR Dissect Deductive Tasting

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This week, two slightly hungover Booze Hags push through thanks to an engaging Australian wild ale. It was a big beer week with new and old favourites from Wildflower Brewing, Garage Project and Sailors Grave, topped off by a Friday-night journey to Hop Nation Brewery in Footscray.

What we’re drinking: Wildflower Brewing & Blending Solera Australian Wild Ale, Pull #4 Feb 2019

What we’ve been drinking lately:

• Wildflower Brewing and Blending Hallertau Blanc Farmhouse Ale Saison (Terri - Blackhearts & Sparrows)
• 2018 Garage Project Devil’s Punch Bowl Sour Nat, Wellington, NZ (Terri - Blackhearts & Sparrows)
• 2018 Le Timbre Space Quartet No.3 Pinot Noir, Sunbury, VIC (Terri - Brunswick East Wine Store)
• Unico Zelo Esoterico & Truffle Hound order (Terri)
• Sailors Grave Crystal Healing Gose (Cass)
• 2018 The Other Right All Fruits Ripe Pinot Noir, Adelaide Hills SA (Cass)

Where we’ve been drinking lately:

• Hop Nation Brewery, Footscray

What we’ve been watching/reading/listening to:

• The Cut on Tuesdays podcast (Cass)
• Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel podcast (Cass)
• Stranger Things on Netflix (Terri)

Further reading:

• Can you explain the “solera” system of aging your wine? by WineMaker

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Our minds get blown this week after we discovered that Gamay is grown outside of Beaujolais in France. Thanks to a delicious bottle of red, we take a journey through the Loire Valley from the comfort of Terri's living room. We've also got a jam-packed episode full of booze, bars, books and broadway!

What we’re drinking: 2017 Château Pierre-Bise Anjou Gamay, Loire Valley, France

What we’ve been drinking lately:

• 2017 Giuseppe Cortese Barbera d’Alba, Piedmont, Italy (Cass)
• 2017 Occhipinti SP68 Rosso (Cass)
• Moon Dog Craft Brewery Thunder Lips Yuzu Red IPA, Melbourne, VIC (Terri)
• 2018 Chèvre Wines Field Blend, Otway Ranges, VIC (Terri)
• 2016 Jarad & Jordy’s Pinot Noir
• 2018 Little Ra Ra Pétillant #2, Pyrenees, VIC (Terri)
• 2018 Bobar Chardonnay, Yarra Valley, VIC (Terri)

Where we’ve been drinking lately:

• Wine and the Country (Cass)
• Belle’s Hot Chicken (Terri)

What we’ve been watching/reading/listening to:

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (Terri)
• China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan (Terri)
• Come From Away (Terri)
• Ladies, We Need to Talk podcast (Terri)
• City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (Cass)

Further reading:

• Loire Valley Wine Guide by Wine Folly
• The tiny town behind a heartwarming 9/11 tale by Konrad Marshall, Good Weekend

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The Booze Hags continue to uncover delicious medium-bodied “big” reds thanks to the wonders of a good Yarra Valley Shiraz. Terri double-downs on Yuzu and Stranger Things and Cassie starts over again with Shadowhunters and slow-cooking.

What we’re drinking: 2018 Blood Moon Wines Sang de Lune Shiraz, Yarra Valley VIC

What we’ve been drinking lately:

• 2017 Billy Button Rosso - Alpine Valleys VIC (Cass)
• Unico Zelo Yuzu Vermouth - Adelaide Hills SA (Terri)
• KI NO BI Kyoto Dry Gin, The Kyoto Distillery - Kyoto, Japan (Terri)
• Mikkeller Spontandoubleraspberry (Terri)

What we’ve been watching/reading/listening to:

• Hairspray on Netflix (Terri)
• Stranger Things Season 3, Netflix (Terri)
• Stranger Songs, Ingrid Michaelson (Terri)
• I Might Regret This, Abbi Jacobson (Cass)
• Rewatching The Shadowhunters on Netflix (Cass)
• Slow-cooking (Cass)

Further reading:

• Drinking in Japan

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Do you have a guilty pleasure that shouldn’t actually make you feel guilty? This week we unpack Terri’s, return to some old favourites on Netflix and have two important podcast recommendations. We also chat about booze we’ve been enjoying from Unico Zelo, Blood Moon Wines, Wildflower Brewing, Testalonga and Wayward Brewing Co.

What we’re drinking: 2018 Sam Vinciullo Driveway Shiraz, Margaret River WA

What we’ve been drinking lately:

• Unico Zelo Yuzu Vermouth, Adelaide Hills SA (Terri)
• 2016 Unico Zelo Exocarpos Nebbiolo, Adelaide Hills SA (Terri)
• Work wine club (Terri)
• 2018 Blood Moon Wines Metcalfe Syrah Nouveau (Terri)
• Wildflower Too Easy: Motueka (Terri)
• 2018 Testalonga Baby Bandito Follow Your Dreams, Swartland, South Africa (Cass)
• Wayward Brewing Co Raspberry Berliner Weisse (Cass)

Where we’ve been drinking:

• Grosvenor Hotel (Cass)

What we’ve been watching/reading/listening to:

• Bridget Jones on Netflix (Cass)
• She’s On The Money podcast (Cass)
• Actually, I hate sex from Love etc. podcast (Cass)
• Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled on PlayStation 4 (Terri)

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It’s our 21st and you’re invited! In this bumper episode we celebrate our coming-of-age with a special bottle of Champagne, get the lowdown on where to drink and eat in Queenstown NZ thanks to Terri’s recent trip there, and have a general catch up after 10 days apart.

What we’re drinking: Billecart-Salmon Brut Réserve Champagne NV

What we’ve been drinking lately:

• 2014 Rippon Tinker’s Field Mature Vine Pinot Noir, Central Otago NZ (Terri)
• Garage Project ‘Yuzukosho’ Sour
• 2014 Forlorn Hope Suspiro Del Moro, Sonoma USA
• 2018 Patrick Sullivan Jumpin’ Juice Autumn, Gippsland VIC

Where we’ve been drinking:

• Sherwood Queenstown - Queenstown, NZ (Terri)
• Amisfield Bistro & Cellar Door - Queenstown, NZ (Terri)
• Smiths Craft Beer House - Queenstown, NZ (Terri)
• Altitude Brewing - Queenstown, NZ (Terri)
• Wet Jacket Wines - Queenstwon, NZ (Terri)

What we’ve been watching/reading/listening to:

• The Bold Type, Season 3 (Terri)
• City of Trees, Sophie Cunningham (Terri)
• Spotify seasonal playlists (Terri)
• Untappd (Terri)

Thanks for tuning in! 

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This episode was produced by Terri Coad

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