DISTILLERY Glendronach ALCOHOL 46% REGION Highlands COLOR Dark amber NOSE Dark chocolate, treacle PALATE Dark cocoa, cinnamon, berries. FINISH Pleasant, flavoursome, warm and mild. SCORE   91 out of 100 NOTES Have you heard of Glendronach?  Because I sure haven’t.  Well not until a friend of mine Mitchell gave me this sweet, sweet dram for my birthday earlier this year.  ...

Swanderful

MELBOURNE VICTORY 2 – ADELAIDE UNITED 1 NEWCASTLE JETS 2 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 0 – SYDNEY FC 1 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 – BRISBANE ROAR 1 PERTH GLORY 2 – MELBOURNE HEART 0 Notes From Round Three I don’t have a lot of love for Graham Arnold or the Central Coast Mariners but even I felt bad ...

Punkin Donuts

On the rails

Homeland – Season Two – The Smile A friend of mine recently inquired about the show Homeland which recently returned to air after cleaning up at this season’s Emmy awards.  “Is it worth watching?”  I couldn’t give him a straight answer.  It’s a great show but its perpetually one episode away from collapsing into 24 levels of silliness.  I’m talking ...

I don’t mind telling you, it’s been a hell of a year.  Both Jen and I have survived a rather challenging twelve months in our careers and we will gladly see the back of 2012.  We’ve both had it pretty good up to now and have stayed at our respective companies for fourteen years combined.  But this year, for whatever ...

ADELAIDE UNITED 1 – WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 0 SYDNEY FC 2 – NEWCASTLE JETS 3 BRISBANE ROAR 5 – MELBOURNE VICTORY 0 MELBOURNE HEART 1 – WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 – PERTH GLORY 0 The Marquee Match Up Sydney FC‘s first home game of the season against Newcastle Jets was a fixture that I think everyone in ...

Touching the sack

Have a good weekend everyone!