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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.
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Thistledown The Quickening Barossa Shiraz 2021

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 90
  • $50
  • 2022-2027
This attractive, quite early drinking style of Barossa Shiraz does exhibit good layers of complexity as it delivers soy sauce,...
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Thistledown Bachelor’s Block Shiraz 2020

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 94
  • $80
  • 2026-2035
The bold, rich and classically styled Barossan delivers a high volume of fruit – chocolate covered blackberries, toasty oak, and...
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Thistledown Where Eagles Dare Eden Valley Shiraz 2020

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 93
  • $80
  • 2022-2032
From the highly regarded Mattschoss Vineyard high up in the Eden Valley comes this powerful yet reserved Barossan showing its...
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Pirathon Bronze Label Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 89
  • $28
  • 2022-2026
A couple of years in bottle has helped this Barossa Shiraz to settle into a good place and it delivers...
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

Red Wine - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 93
  • $76
  • 2025-2034
Here we have a real claret style – a highly pure and elegant Cabernet blend with a smattering of other...
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Merlot 2020

Red Wine - Merlot
  • 93+
  • $76
  • 2025-2034
The twin to the Ribbon Vale Cabernet Sauvignon, this is the Merlot dominant version with Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc...
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Moss Wood Amy’s 2021

Other - Specialty
  • 90
  • $40
  • 2023-2030
This bright and aromatic Cabernet Sauvignon blend is beautifully approachable as it delivers an elegant expression of Margaret River. It...
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Common Molly McLaren Vale Grenache 2022

Red Wine - Grenache
  • 88
  • $27
  • 2022-2024
These are the first releases of a new side project from Auld Family Wines. They are unashamedly made for a...
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Common Molly Barossa Valley Grenache 2022

Red Wine - Grenache
  • 90
  • $27
  • 2022-2025
These are the first releases of a new side project from Auld Family Wines. They are unashamedly made for a...
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Kirrihill Wines Partner Series Riesling 2022

White Wine - Riesling
  • 92
  • $25
  • 2024-2032
This is a significant step up from the standard Kirrihill Riesling and offers fine and detailed aromas of bath salts,...
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Kirrihill Wines Partner Series Shiraz 2020

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 92
  • $30
  • 2024-2030
This well made and hearty Clare Valley Shiraz is a powerful red wine with style as it delivers a generous...
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Kirrihill Wines E.B. Gleeson The Squire Shiraz 2020

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 94
  • $65
  • 2026-2035
Kirrihill have made a name for themselves in the value stakes but wines like this show that they can also...
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Maxwell Wines Small Batch Grenache Blanc 2021

Red Wine - Grenache
  • 92
  • $42
  • 2022-2025
This is a ripe and exotic expression of Grenache Blanc, delivering heady aromas of apricot, preserved lemon and melon fruits....
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Maxwell Wines EOCENE Shiraz 2020

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 92
  • $70
  • 2024-2031
This tightly wrapped, brooding McLaren Vale Shiraz offers up a dense core of powerful fruits with blackberry aromas well supported...
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Vasse Felix DHJ1 CHardonnay 2021

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 93
  • $75
  • 2025-2032
This 2021 single vineyard Chardonnay, made only from Gingin clone, from the cooler Wallcliffe zone opens up with beautifully savoury...
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Pikes Traditionale Riesling 2022

White Wine - Riesling
  • 93
  • $27
  • 2022-2032
Exceptional value here in this Clare Valley Riesling which punches well above its weight with serious intensity of lime pith...
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Pikes The Merle Riesling 2022

White Wine - Riesling
  • 95
  • $55
  • 2024-2035
Fabulous purity and poise, and quite different to Pikes Traditionale, the 2022 Merle is a sleek little number that slowly...
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Precious Little Grüner Veltliner 2022

White Wine - Grüner Veltliner
  • 90
  • $25
  • 2022-2024
A beautiful introduction to the variety, this Grüner Veltliner amps up its renowned spicy side thanks to cooler climate origins...
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Brown Hill Fimiston Reserve Shiraz 2020

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 92
  • $50
  • 2022-2030
This elegant and subtle Shiraz shows good intensity of fruit with layers of mulberry, black pepper and violet aromas with...
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Brown Hill Ivanhoe Cabernet

Brown Hill Ivanhoe Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

Red Wine - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 91
  • $50
  • 2022-2028
There is plenty to enjoy in this elegant exmaple of Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon with its crystal clear typicity as...
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Nightfall Coonawarra The Lion Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

Red Wine - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 93
  • $120
  • 2022-2032
Quite a classic Coonawarra expression here – poised and precise – as it delivers impressive layers of dried herbs, blackberry...
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Chateau Tanunda The Chateau Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Red Wine - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 90
  • $40
  • 2023-2028
Quite an elegant expression of Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon thanks to its Eden Valley origins which offers up layers of blackberry...
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Chateau Tanunda The Chateau Single Vineyard Bethanian Shiraz 2020

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 91
  • $40
  • 2023-2030
From close to the old township of Bethany comes this traditionally styled Barossan with its chunky fruits and feel, which...
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Chateau Tanunda Old Vine Heritage Release Shiraz 2021

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 92
  • $40
  • 2024-2032
This attractive and traditionally styled Barossa Shiraz was made with fruit off old vines with 18 months maturation in a...
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Stories

PEN Winemaking Vintage WholeBunch Chardonnay Landscape

The Answer is, and Always was, Chardonnay

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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Margaret River Wine Show 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

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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Page Canon Camden Park Label

Australia’s First Vintage – 1792

Angus Hughson
The earliest days for the Australian wine industry were not easy. Cuttings first had to successfully make the long trip...
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Coonawarra Siding Summer Ockert Le Roux

Red Earth Rising

Angus Hughson
It is a rare miracle when two superb vintages go back to back, and, for Coonawarra, 2021 and 2022 may...
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2019 Henschke Releases

Angus Hughson
Henschke have now brought their premium wine releases together for release dates and vintage, which provides a good snapshot of...
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