Victoria – cooler than Burgundy?
Thursday 20 March 2025
• 11 min read

Can this southern Australian state compete with Burgundy for cool-climate wines with real personality and sense of place? See also Victoria's cool Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs.
I’m hunched into a thin cotton cardigan, face into an icy wind, leaning into the single slice of sunshine on the ferry deck as it chugs across The Rip. Port Phillip Bay is 360°-wide, silver-navy blue. My hands are purple with cold. It’s just past 10 am on 29 January 2025 and we’re watching Sorrento, followed by the thin slip of glass-house-sculpted Portsea peninsula, shave past us on the left as we head...
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