Blanc de Blancs – white of whites. Put simply, pale sparkling wine made from white varieties. What you need to...

Chandon has been a leader in Australian sparkling since their first wines were released back in 1989. It is still...

One of the world’s most iconic wines, from a great vintage – much expected. But the Henschkes never let you...

The old basket presses at Kays have certainly seen plenty of vintages. And what that quite gentle fruit pressing provides...

A relatively new addition to the Henschke range, this is their gateway Eden Valley shiraz, which shows a clear lineage...

There is not too much merlot or cabernet sauvignon in the Adelaide Hills as it is a very cool climate...

Sometimes it must be hard being a Henschke – expectations are high for each and every wine. So I might...

This wine comes from the Innes Vineyard at Littlehampton so avoided the Lenswood fires of 2020. It’s a more subtle...

Chandon purchased vineyards in the spectacular Whitlands Plateau district in Victoria some years ago, one of the finest regions on...

A change in livery is always a good time to revisit popular wines – much loved friends born anew. After...

Neon pink. If the other Chandon NVs are perhaps a smidge demure, this one is all frilly skirts, garters and...

Crafted with fruit off the Henschke vineyards at Lenswood, this is a bright, fresh and very pure style of chardonnay...

Once it seemed to me that this was very much a unicorn wine. One heard of it but almost never...

A single vineyard shiraz from the Eden Valley, this is perhaps the Australian wine which has offered more vintages than...

Always a favourite and from such an exciting vintage, much is expected. For me, a very fine Tappa Pass, perhaps...

A Barossa Bordeaux-ish blend of shiraz, cabernet sauvignon, merlot and cabernet franc. Black and purples plus an intriguing nose with...

Fom the Barossa, this is a grenache mourvèdre shiraz blend in the tradition of the great southern Rhones and it...

If this were twenty years ago, we’d all be talking about a red like this being exactly why Aussie wines...

The Wolf Blass team, right back to the days of Caroline Dunn as winemaker, have being doing some seriously good...

If there is any region that screams Blass, it is surely Langhorne Creek. Many of his early efforts hailed from...

Mount Barker was one of the first regions in the Great Southern to gain attention and it is still one...

More than your average Margaret River sauvignon blanc here in a wine that combines bright purity of fruit with an...

Shiraz from the Great Southern is slowly starting to make a name for itself with the region’s icy climate increasingly...

There are few more famous towns for cabernet sauvignon in Australia than Margaret River and wines like this show why...