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Angus Hughson

Angus is an award-winning wine writer and the Founder and Publisher of Winepilot, the Australian Editor for leading international publication VINOUS with Antonio Galloni based in New York City and the Co-Publisher of The Australian Ark with over 15 years of publishing, writing and judging experience.
Terre à Terre ReserveFuméBlanc

Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Reserve Fumé Blanc 2023

Other - Specialty
  • 94
  • $59
  • 2025-2035
This 2023 Reserve Sauvignon Blanc is slick with focussed aromas of passionfruit and cut grass against a backdrop of oak...
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TaT Crayères ReserveRed

Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Reserve Cabernet Shiraz Franc 2021

Red Wine - Cabernet - Shiraz
  • 97
  • $90
  • 2035-2050
This superb 2021 Reserve blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and Cabernet Franc has a strong Bordeaux Cru Classe feel with...
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ClarendonSyrah

Bekkers Clarendon Syrah 2023

Red Wine - Syrah
  • 94
  • $120
  • 2030-2038
This 2023 Clarendon Syrah is a masterpiece and sure to become a collector’s item as the first single vineyard wine...
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NVSyrah

Bekkers Syrah 2023

Red Wine - Syrah
  • 97
  • $120
  • 2030-2044
The 2023 Bekkers Syrah is fascinating, balletic and light on its feet as it dances between layers of white pepper,...
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CabSauv

Bekkers Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 92
  • $120
  • 2026-2035
The 2023 Bekkers Cabernet Sauvignon, the first from their Clarendon Vineyard Estate is a fine and ethereal expression of the...
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Cannonball Web No Vintage

Snake & Herring Cannonball Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 92
  • $65
  • 2025-2032
The 2022 Cannonball Cabernet Sauvignon has a little Malbec and Merlot in the mix, offering up plump aromas of blackberry...
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Two From Two NV ()

Snake & Herring Tainted Love Syrah Rosé 2024

Red Wine - Syrah
  • 88
  • $33
  • 2025-2027
Pale salmon pink in colour. Quite fruity in style with aromas of strawberry and cream, watermelon and a faint touch...
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Dirty boots Cabernet sauvignon no vintage

Snake & Herring Dirty Boots Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 91
  • $33
  • 2025-2032
This quite serious 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon for the price opens with a burst of upfront cassis before diving into deep...
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Wide Open Road Web No vintage

Snake & Herring Wild Open Road Pinot Noir 2024

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 88
  • $33
  • 2025-2026
The Wide Open Road Pinot Noir 2024 is fruit forward with raspberry and cherry aromas with a touch of spice....
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Corduroy Chardonnay no vintage

Snake & Herring Corduroy Chardonnay 2023

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 93
  • $65
  • 2027-2034
The well pitched 2023 Corduroy Chardonnay, from the cooler Margaret River sub-region of Karridale, is impressive with its upfront aromas...
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Tough love Chardonny web No vintage ()

Snake & Herring Tough Love Chardonnay 2024

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 90
  • $33
  • 2025-2029
This multi-layered 2024 Chardonnay shows the warmth of the season with lashings of ripe peach and nectarine aromas with flashes...
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BLT Web no Vintage

Snake & Herring Bizarre Love Triangle Pinot Gris Riesling 2024

White Wine - Riesling
  • 91
  • $33
  • 2025-2028
This 2024 Pinot Gris with a touch of Riesling delivers a punchy array of pear and nectarine aromas with a...
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OatesEnds Cabernet Lg Resize()

Oates Ends Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 92
  • $60
  • 2028-2035
This 2021 vintage is a more herbal scented and supple vintage from Cath Oates with an almost claretfeel to it...
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OatesEnds Cabernet Lg Resize()

Oates Ends Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 94
  • $60
  • 2030-2042
The 2022 Oates Ends Cabernet Sauvignon delivers lovely aromatic purity with fruit pastilles, cassis and just a touch of leaf...
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Handpicked Single Vineyard Wombat Creek Pinot Noir Yarra Valley

Handpicked Wombat Creek Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 92
  • $90
  • 2026-2033
This lightly framed and alluring 2022 single vineyard Pinot Noir teases with wafts of dark cherry and star anise topped...
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Capella Vineyard Pinot Noir

Handpicked Capella Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 92
  • $90
  • 2029-2034
An ethereal 2022 single vineyard Pinot Noir, with subtle wafts of red cherry, Sichuan pepper, and raspberry, all fine and...
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Handpicked Collection Tasmania Pinot Noir

Handpicked Collection Tasmania Pinot Noir 2022

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 93
  • $60
  • 2028-2035
This bright young 2022 Pinot Noir jumps out of the blocks with lavish raspberry, red licorice, rose petal and cranberry...
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Handpicked Collection Pinot Noir Mornington

Handpicked Collection Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir 2022

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 91
  • $60
  • 2025-2029
This seamless and pretty 2022 Pinot Noir is stylish and shows great finesse with creeping layers of cherry compote and...
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Hell Hole Shiraz FS

Meerea Park Hell Hole Shiraz 2023

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 94
  • $60
  • 2023-2042
The 2023 Hell Hole Shiraz has a promising future with brooding aromas of blackberry and dark cherry which are bright...
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Terracotta Syrah FS

Meerea Park Terracotta Syrah 2023

Red Wine - Syrah
  • 95
  • $75
  • 2033-2045
This unusual 2023 blend of Shiraz and Marsanne is young, tight and vibrant with a powerful core of dark cherry,...
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XYZ Shiraz FS

Meerea Park XYZ Shiraz 2023

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 92
  • $30
  • 2027-2035
This approachable and stylish 2023 XYZ Shiraz is bursting with dark cherry, blackberry and cranberry aromas with a veneer of...
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Alexander Munro Semillon

Meerea Park Alexander Munro Semillon 2019

White Wine - Semillon
  • 93
  • $65
  • 2025-2035
The 2019 Alexander Munro Semillon is well composed and just starting to come out of its shell with lemon and...
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Howard Park Abercrombie Cabernet Sauvignon x

Howard Park Leston Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 93
  • $52
  • 2030-2040
This well-priced and quite serious 2023 Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon is classically proportioned and ripples with blackcurrant and blueberry sharpened...
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Howard Park Leston Shiraz x

Howard Park Leston Margaret River Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 90
  • $40
  • 2025-2031
The 2022 Leston Shiraz, made with 5% whole bunch and a wild ferment, delivers a fleshy and approachable expression, with...
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Stories

Anselmi Lifestyle

Anselmi – Ahead of the Curve

July 16, 2025
Angus Hughson
Trailblazer is a term often thrown around in the wine trade. Yet, while there is certainly plenty of experimentation in...
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One Thousand Vines PLC cover

The Greatest Wine Book That You’ve Never Heard of – One Thousand Vines by Pascaline Lepeltier

April 14, 2025
Angus Hughson
Pascaline Lepeltier is the sommelier at highly regarded Chambers restaurant in Lower Manhattan, New York, with a superbly crafted and...
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Jansz Vineyard

Chasing Down Champagne

February 28, 2025
Angus Hughson
You have to hand it to French marketing, particularly when it comes to Champagne. It is a giant region; 34,000...
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PEN Winemaking Vintage WholeBunch Chardonnay Landscape

The Answer is, and Always was, Chardonnay

January 31, 2025
Angus Hughson
Imagine having a crystal ball twenty years ago and peering into the future of Australian wine. At the time, Robert...
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shotbyovis

Margaret River Wine Show 2024

November 6, 2024
Angus Hughson
Change was in the air at the 2024 Margaret River Wine Show as last year’s Chairman Nick Ryan had moved...
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YAL WINEMAKERS

Yalumba new releases including some surprises

May 14, 2024
Angus Hughson
Travel around the world and what you notice is many great international wineries have parcels of old vintages for sale....
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