An orchard of trees laden with white nectarines and blossoming frangipanis. Some raw macadamia and the sawdust powder of newly...

A fountain of youth(ful) freshness, this 5-year-old Margaret River Cabernet defies time. Refined and elegant, it offers a striking regional...

Green mango, sappy mandarin, grapefruit – bright-eyed and barefoot at the farmers market. Stone fruits galore. What’s better on a...

Red liquorice, spice, tart mulberry – inviting, like a witch with a candy cabin. Full-bodied but gives the illusion of...

Bendigo is a wine region that often punches above its weight, and the Passing Clouds Loddon Shiraz proves it yet...

Smells like baked goods and Sunday mornings. Nostalgic and toasty. As it opens, the nostalgia fades into gentle primary fruits...

Taut, tense and elegant- it’s a restraint style. Blackberry bush, vanilla, tonka bean, chocolate. Lighter in style, but juicy foot-stomped...

A quiet, coiled Margaret River Cabernet just waiting, waiting. It definitely has structure and time on its side and is...

Wild fermented and into 18% new French oak. Backyard lemon skin, yellow apples and cooked quince. A heady mix of...

A pitch perfect Margaret River Chardonnay – smooth, assured and seamless. Delivers a finely nuanced wine to the glass rippling...

Queen of the Earth is the name of a major Margaret River cave, just 6kms from the Flowstone vineyard, noted...

One of my favourite Chardonnay descriptors has long been warm, stretched Blu-Tack—strange to some but a core memory from old...

The intoxicating perfume of Nebbiolo is unmistakable here, carried in swoon-worthy wafts that echo dreams of Piemonte. Rosella, pepperberry, and...

Sweet custard apple, white pineapple and meadow flowers – this may well be WA’s best Savy-B. Few bells, no whistles....

The northern Italian blend makes so much logical sense, that it’s drunk domestically in the Bramaterra DOC bottlings and rarely...

Sourced from dry-grown bush vines planted in the 1930s at Marananga and tended by Bob Modra, this is de stemmed...

Sourced from the Old Bamboo Vineyard in Greenock and tended by David Materne, these vines were planted in the 1960s....

From a vineyard planted in 1956 in Vine Vale.  Some heady black fruit here, punctured with pops of pomegranate pulp....

If Foggy Hill Vineyard is the essence of what Brian Croser calls a “Distinguished Site,” then Definitus drills down further...

A lovely meaty number with charred cherries, sapote and blackberries. Some kalamata olive and black peppercorn spice. A coil of...

This was a very cool growing season that produced very low crops, and yet the wine has triumphed. It’s a...

Upside down pineapple cake, baked peaches and lemon butter. A hint of jasmine flowers and bee pollen. Fruit is decidedly...

This is a super ripe and concentrated Shiraz from the Clare Valley. Loads of dark fruits emanate on the nose...

2018 turned out to be a very good year in the Barossa. This captures the region, the season and the...