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Penfolds Special Shiraz Release 2024

The 2024 Special Shiraz is made with South Australian fruit and more than a splash of Grange from the same vintage. It’s quite a unique release, with the mix of American oak matured Grange and adding to the overall impression....
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Penfolds Grange 2022

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by Jeni Port The ’21 Grange was undoubtedly a hard act to follow, but here we see a ’22 that...
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Cirillo 1850 Ancestor Vine Grenache 2019

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This stunning young 2019 Grenache Ancestor vine, from the country’s oldest vines for this variety delivers an almost perfect mix...
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Wynns Black Label The Original Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

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This is the wine that started it all for Wynns when it was first released from the 1954 vintage. It...
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Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

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No doubt many winelovers have been eagerly awaiting this wine, one of the last of Margaret River’s big guns from...
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The Vintage Journal Barossa Guide 2026

The Barossa remains Australia’s most famous fine wine region. This year’s Barossa Guide 2026 by Andrew Caillard MW and Jeni Port again confirms the skill of its local winemakers and this region’s ability to craft some of the country’s best. The Vintage Journal Barossa Guide 2026
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Fine Water, Fine Dining: For Carribie, It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules

When opening a fine bottle of wine, choosing the right dish to accompany it is de rigueur. But how often...
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There is surely no wine region in this country which has more elite wineries than Margaret River. The advantage for...
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Small Acres Cyder

Small Acres Cyder is exactly that—small in scale but rich in intent. Run by the Geoghegan family in Orange, NSW,...
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Bass Phillip 2024 New Vintage Releases

Bass Phillip Gamay 2024  $75 | 91 Points This 2024 Gamay is fine and perfumed to start showing fresh red...

Ben Murray Wines

Dan Eggleton of Ben Murray Wines in the Barossa is as true and unpretentious as the wines he makes. A...
Lifestyle

Castello Di Meleto

Located in Gaiole in Chianti, in the heart of Chianti Classico, this estate traces its connection to wine back to...


Australian new releases

Every week there are hundreds of new Australian wines hitting shelves and winelists around the world. Here is our regular update on what’s new from the biggest brands right down to the smallest boutique winemakers.

Kinship Cabernet Sauvignon

Credaro Kinship Cabernet Sauvignon 2025

A deep and firm style of Cabernet. Blackberry coulis, plum juice, brambles and dried bay leaves. It is the kind of wine that feels nostalgic and warming. In the mouth, the fruit is concentrated, with dark chocolate, charred plums and...
Yabby Lake Chardonnay

Yabby Lake Vineyard Mornington Peninsula Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2025

Where do you start? The aromas rise in a flurry of scents, aromatic and lively, in peach, nectarine, baked quince,...
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Yabby Lake Vineyard Tasmania Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2025

Hails from the Coal River Valley and in this cool, southerly Tassie sub-region, the ’25 vintage shone with a warm...
Yabby Lake Pinot Gris NV

Yabby Lake Vineyard Mornington Peninsula Single Vineyard Pinot Gris 2025

The Single Vineyard in question is Block 2 at Tuerong which resides on sandy clay loam with iron shot stone....
Yabby Lake Syrah NV

Yabby Lake Mornington Peninsula Single Vineyard Syrah 2025

This Mornington Peninsula Syrah shows the region’s innate ability to produce depth and elegance with the grape. The same cool...
Yabby Lake Tasmania Pinot Noir NV

Yabby Lake Tasmania Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2025

This well-travelled Pinot has a hell of a story to tell. Fruit was hand-picked in Tasmania’s Coal River Valley before...
Red Claw Pinot Noir NV

Yabby Lake Red Claw Pinot Noir 2025

Trademark Mornington Peninsula cherry, berry fruits to the fore here with toasted oak spice, florals and a layer of herbs,...
Yabby Lake Pinot Noir NV

Yabby Lake Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir 2025

Dances bright and lively which seems to very much be a 2025 Peninsula Pinot thing. It is a picture of...
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Pipers Brook Kreglinger Sparkling 2019

Eloquent, effortless and layered – this is a great little sparkling. Apple crumble, peaches and shortbread. A single-vineyard wine made...
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Pipers Brook Tasmanian Pinot Noir 2022

Drunken cherries, tonka bean and charred rhubarb. This Pinot, as I’m drinking it in 2026, is open-weaved and in a...
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Pipers Brook Rochecombe Sparkling Cuvée NV

Why do we keep buying Italian Prosecco when we have bright, fruit-driven sparkling wines like this one? Crisp green apples,...

New Zealand new releases

Kiwi winemakers are now crafting some of the greatest wines on the planet. Our team in Australia and New Zealand hunt down the best new releases from right around the country to share with you.

CraggyTeMuna

Craggy Range Aroha Te Muna Martinborough Pinot Noir 2024

Grown on a narrow band of clay over stone in the Te Muna Vineyard, from vines now over 25 years old, this blends two clones picked five days apart — Clone 667, fermented with 85% whole clusters, and Clone 114...
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Craggy Range Sophia Gimblett Gravels Vineyard 2024

A 79% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Franc, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon blend anchored by Merlot from Block 24 (clone 481), hand-harvested after...
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Craggy Range Le Sol Gimblett Gravels Vineyard 2024

Syrah from a heritage MS clone brought to New Zealand in the 1840s, planted in the stoniest reaches of the...
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Oraterra Chardonnay 2024

This is an arresting wine from the outset. There’s immediacy to the fruit before lashings of floral, nutty and mineral...
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Oraterra Pinot Noir 2024

This is complex from the get go with twigs, forest floor, dewy earth and clove notes dancing around a core...
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Novum Riverbrook Vineyard Chardonnay 2024

This is very fresh and alluring with precise fruit and lovely ground spice notes melding beautifully. White peach, grapefruit, pear,...
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Oraterra Pinot Gris 2024

This is a rich, textural and confident Gris somewhat redolent of the more opulent Alsatian style. It’s packed with fig,...
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Forrest Botrytised Riesling 2024

The team look to three different vineyards in the Wairau Valley in Marlborough, a beautiful part of the world better...
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Forrest Marlborough Riesling 2025

There are times when one must wonder if there was any other variety which could possibly find space in a...
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Forrest Marlborough Botrytised Riesling 2024

Luscious, complex, intense. Botrytis and Riesling go together naturally and this is why with aromas bursting in candied citrus, apricot...
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Forrest Marlborough Riesling 2025

A sweet hearted young New Zealand Riesling and a bit of a sweetheart, too, with its no fuss approach to...

International new releases

Looking for a change? Then let us guide you through the world of wine with our International new releases. We’ve got reviews and stories on everything from bargain supermarket picks right through to international icons.

Tinnyu Chardonnay

Tinnyu Coma Chardonnay 2024

Grown across two high-altitude Shangri-La villages — Xi-Da at 2,800m and A-Dong at 2,600m — on sandy-loam soils threaded with gravel and red schist, this is wild cold fermented over 16-18 days with no post-ferment maceration or MLF, then aged...
Silver Heights Marselan

Silver Heights Jiayuan Marselan 2023

Hand-picked over two separate harvests from the sandier Jishan vineyard soils for freshness and structure, then de-stemmed and fermented in...
Silver Heights Chardonnay

Silver Heights Reserve Chardonnay 2022

Sourced from the sandier soils of the Jishan vineyard and hand-picked before a day’s skin contact, this is fermented under...
Xiao Pu Perdue Pinot Noir

Xiao Pu Perdue 22.3 Pinot Noir

Made by nomadic négociant Ian Dai Hongjing under his ‘Perdue’ label — this is the third release, drawn from Ningxia...
September Helan Chardonnay

September Helan Chardonnay 2024

Fermented at 16°C over seven days from Gezi Mountain fruit, half the blend spends six months in new French oak...
Tinnyu Cabernet

Tinnyu Coma Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

Sourced from the Mei-Li-Shi Village vineyard at 2,300m in Shangri-La — a site expected to disappear within five years to...
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Feudo Arancio Inzolia 2025

Every year, this wine blows me away when it comes to just what cracking value it represents. Inzolia, for those...
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Mezzacorona Castel Firmian Riserva Pinot Grigio 2024

Castel Firmian is the premium label for the Mezzacorona cooperative, well known for excellent Pinot Grigio from the Trentino region...
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Mezzacorona Castel Firmian Pinot Grigio 2025

This example of Pinot Grigio, from the Trentino region in northern Italy, near the foothills of the Italian Alps, has...
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Mezzacorona Pinot Grigio Trentino 2025

Another thoroughly enjoyable Pinot Grigio from the Trentino region in northern Italy, near the foothills of the Alps. Yellow/deep straw...
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Mezzacorona Ventessa Pinot Grigio (Low Calorie) 2025

We are seeing more and more Pinot Grigio from the Trentino region in northern Italy, where it has obviously found...
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