Free for all Snowy Mountain magic One of the more interesting wine regions you have never heard of... 23 May 2020 Jancis Robinson
Free for all South Australia 2020 – unforgettable Brian Croser charts the weather that shaped this year's extraordinary vintage in... 14 Apr 2020 Guest contributor
Max on Oz Smoke gets in your eyes A cool assessment of the effects – both marked and negligible –... 10 Mar 2020 Max Allen
Free for all Diary of a Barossa vintage casual – part 1 Samantha Cole-Johnson, whom we last encountered pruning in freezing-cold Oregon, begins a... 24 Feb 2020 Samantha Cole-Johnson
Free for all Australian bushfires and wine – reality check 2 February 2020 Climate change is clearly an extremely emotive topic. Some... 30 Jan 2020 Guest contributor
Wines of the week Henschke, Croft Chardonnay 2016 Adelaide Hills As the Australian bushfires continue to rage, we’re trying to find ways... 17 Jan 2020 Tamlyn Currin
Free for all Australian bushfires – ways to help 15 January Seriously scary map of the bushfires as of today here... 12 Jan 2020 Jancis Robinson
Max on Oz Catastrophic bushfires in the Adelaide Hills Max has filed his bimonthly column a little early this month, for... 24 Dec 2019 Max Allen
Alder on America Flames, fermentation, fear and recovery in Sonoma Reports from the front line of northern California winemakers v fire and... 18 Nov 2019 Alder Yarrow
Free for all Kincade Fire menaces Sonoma On-the-spot reports from yet another potentially devastating fire in northern California. Publication... 27 Oct 2019 Alder Yarrow
Alder on America Powerless to pause harvest in California How will northern California's power cuts affect this year's vintage? Last week... 15 Oct 2019 Alder Yarrow
Inside information Spanish grapes and vines burnt to a cinder Terrible news and pictures from Priorat, Aragón and Gredos. I am writing... 3 Jul 2019 Ferran Centelles
Free for all Fires rage in Yarra Valley 7 February 2019 This Thursday's delve into the archives is a particularly... 7 Feb 2019 Jancis Robinson
Free for all Fires sweep through Napa, Sonoma and beyond As part of our Throwback Thursday series we are republishing this eye-witness... 4 Oct 2018 Elaine Chukan Brown
Inside information Assessing smoke-taint and fermentation issues In this third part of her study, Elaine highlights what scientists are... 24 Jul 2018 Elaine Chukan Brown
Inside information The reality of the 2017 California fires today Elaine looks carefully at the aftermath of last October’s wine-country fires. See... 18 Jul 2018 Elaine Chukan Brown