About Your Author, Darby Higgs
Vinodiversity is a project of Darby Higgs, a Melbourne based wine writer and enthusiast.
My Vinodiversity.com website and the associated publications deal primarily with Australian wine made using "alternative" grape varieties. While I have no formal wine qualifications I have been exploring the Australian wine industry, especially at the quirky edges for several decades. The central idea of Vinodiversity is that wine is a product of prodigious variety and diversity. Yet most people seem to become fixated with just a few varieties or styles.
When I tell people what I'm on about they sometimes say
But what's wrong with Shiraz?
And I say
"Nothing. But it's like saying "What's wrong with grilled eye fillet steak?" I enjoy it, but I don't eat it every day.
For each wine lover a better wine is one that she enjoys more than another. For example, Vermentino is an interesting, even exciting wine for Australians to try, but it is fairly humdrum for Sardinians.
The aim of these posts and articles in not to tell you what you should like nor which wine is better than another. You won't find point scores here. I don't know what a point tastes like.
Rather my aim in writing these articles is to encourage winelovers to think, and drink outside the square. Open your mind to varieties you have never tried, some you may not favour, but you are sure to find some rich rewards if you persevere.