http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/nick-ryan/ Thrown out of university in Adelaide and moving to Sydney, Nick Ryan used the knowledge he’d gained raiding his old man’s cellar to land a job with one of Sydney’s leading wine merchants. Realising that writing about it was easier than lifting it has led him to where he is now. He’s a regular contributor to Men’s Style Australia and Gourmet Traveller Wine and has judged in many Australian and international wine shows. He is excited by wines that are just as interesting by the fourth glass as they are at the first and would give it all up to play one game for the Port Adelaide Football Club. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-got-my-cheap-wine-and-a-pending-liver-transplant/ Things we should consign to the non-recyclable rubbish bin of a lost Australia. Female tennis players winning Grand Slams. Babies christened Keith or Shirley. Bank branches in small country towns. Australian wine under ten bucks a bottle. While you’re just as likely to bump into the Beaumont children as encounter any of the first three, there’s still an ocean of palate-numbing, environment-raping, image-trashing plonk out there and everything that is great and good about the Australian wine industry is drowning in it. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Nick Ryan) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-got-my-cheap-wine-and-a-pending-liver-transplant/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-got-my-cheap-wine-and-a-pending-liver-transplant/#item923 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:55:12 +0000 Nick Ryan | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/our-palates-are-under-attack-from-new-zealand/ All this time we’ve been watching for leaky boats from the north while the real invasion has come from the south-east. And not only have we gladly let it happen but we’ve paid for the privilege as well. Currently one in three bottles of white wine sold in this country comes from New Zealand. And for Kiwi white wine read sauvignon blanc, mostly from Marlborough at the top of the South Island and the most ruinous liquid to hit these shores since the streets of Sydney Cove ran with blood and rum. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Nick Ryan) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/our-palates-are-under-attack-from-new-zealand/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/our-palates-are-under-attack-from-new-zealand/#item365 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:45:54 +0000 Nick Ryan | Author bios | The Punch