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Brokenwood Semillon 2022 Hunter Valley
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 12 December 2025
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Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 28 November 2025
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d’Arenberg, The High Trellis Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 McLaren Vale
Andy Howard MW
Friday 7 November 2025
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28 June 2023 The Old Vine Registry has just been launched! See this article for background.
9 February 2023 Exciting...
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A deep dive into VSCs and correct sulphur-related terms. Virginia Willcock is toying with the idea of putting a permanent...
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Virginia Willcock sets the model for flinty, wonderfully funky Chardonnay.
Virginia Willcock (pictured below), garlanded winemaker at Vasse Felix in...
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A great-value southern-hemisphere alternative to Côte Rôtie, made by Tim Lovett, above.
From AU$22.99, $22, £19.49
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Floods and drought collide in eastern Australia.
The last time the cellars flooded at Mitchelton was 1974, just after the...
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15 December 2022 We're republishing this just for fun, with a few updates, and would welcome any further suggestions via...
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The far south-western tip of Australia makes up in quality what it lacks in quantity. Cabernet, then Chardonnay, made the...
Max on Oz
Do screwcaps preserve wines during a glorious evolution, or stunt their development?
In 1977, when Clare Valley winemaker Andrew Mitchell...
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Answers to burgundy from Australia's coolest terroir. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See more...
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All Tolpuddle Chardonnays so far released, in some rather fine glasses. Read more in A totemic Tasmanian.
Long-standing readers of...
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A ton of tasting notes from our Singapore correspondent.
Gramona's Font Jui, pictured above, is one of many wines I...
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This year's final set of announcements of these great diversity and inclusion initiatives.
We have already announced the first tranche...
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The vineyards, and wines, of Mount Horrocks and Grosset have been revolutionised, much to Jeffrey Grosset's surprise.
Stephanie Toole lifts...
Nick on restaurants
Memories of one of Britain's great self-taught chefs, cookbook writers and provisioners. Alastair Little, the chef who recently died aged...
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Not just one but two stunningly well-made dry whites, one a whippersnapper, the other rather majestically mature.
Vasse Felix from...
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Yarra Valley makes it into our wine of the week pages after a seven-year absence, and it's Giant Steps again...
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