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Stories

MT Wines

MT Wines is the brand of winemaker Marco Tovazzi and his wife Portia. Marco originally hails from Trento in the north-eastern Italian region of Trentino-Alto

MW Corner – Annette Lacey casts an eye on Domaine Naturaliste

Just to make a disclaimer – I have always loved these wines and have listed them in many a restaurant or pub list as they

Wynns Coonawarra Estate Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

Tony Love96 Points – Drink 2024 – 2045 Produced from Wynns’ best 20%-25% fruit grown on the region’s terra rossa vineyard, the Coonawarra’s major defining

Wynns Coonawarra Estate John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Tony Love98 Points – Drink 2025 – 2045 Wynns’ flagship cabernet, selected from the best estate vineyards and refined even further from the top one

Wynns Coonawarra Estate Michael Shiraz 2018

Ray Jordan98 Points – Drink 2025 – 2050 This super wine is made only in the best vintages, and this is a return after a

Wynns Coonawarra Estate V & A Lane Shiraz 2019

Ray Jordan93 Points – Drink 2023 – 2033 This part of Coonawarra which roughly bisects the region results in fruit that ripens earlier than most

Wynns Coonawarra Estate Johnson’s Block Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Jeni Port95 Points – Drink 2021 – 2042 It started out not so much a deliberate act as more of an afterthought. I opened Johnson’s

Wynns Coonawarra Estate Black Label Old Vines Shiraz 2019

Ray Jordan95 Points – Drink 2025 – 2040 A perfect partner to the Black label Cabernet. This is certainly one of the best and most

Wynns Coonawarra Estate V & A Lane Cabernet Shiraz 2019

Jeni Port95 Points – Drink 2021 – 2031 V & A Lane cabernet shiraz is warming to its task a lot faster than its shiraz

Mitchell Wines New Releases 2021

The Mitchell family property in the Clare Valley was purchased in 1949 by Peter McNicol Mitchell and was originally a dairy farm and orchard, and

Greenock Creek New Releases 2021

It was back in 1984 that the first grapes were picked for the inaugural vintage from Greenock Creek wines. Taken from 1960s shiraz plantings off

Wine and the City – There is a bottle for everybody

When asked his favourite wine my father will reply: “Beer”. There are many attributes I’ve inherited from him. However, alcohol preference is not one. Whilst

Small Victories Wine New Releases 2021

Sisters-in-law Jules and Bec Ashmead of Elderton Wines have branched out with their own wine label, Small Victories Wine Co, sourcing fruit that celebrates the

New Releases from Domaine Naturaliste

Bruce Dukes from Domaine Naturaliste believes that truly great wine is created from the ground up, approaching winemaking with a deep understanding of soils and

Koyama Wines New Releases

Takahiro Koyama arrived in New Zealand in 2003 to study winemaking and while in the country starting working with acclaimed winemaker CP Lin at Mountford

An Italian Affair

Vino Intrepido is the brainchild of winemaker James Scarcebrook, who developed a love for Italian wines during a trip to the region, which then became

International Grenache Day 2021

Friday September 17 2021 was International Grenache Day and it was our pleasure to join our close friends from the Barossa Valley for a discussion and

Hewitson New Releases 2021

Hear-ye, hear-ye! Here’s an impressive line-up of new release wines from Dean Hewitson… the new whites fresh, vibrant and ready for spring, and the reds

New Vine to Wine range from Mitchelton

There’s romance in a cellar door surrounded by vines and wines that tell the story of their place as Mitchelton well knows, nestled in the

Duval on Grenache

The name, Duval, is and always will be inextricably linked with Grange. John Duval was chief winemaker at Penfold’s from 1986 to 2002, making some

Patrick of Coonawarra Methode

I think it’s great when winemakers try to do things a little differently, such as using winemaking methods which are not often associated with a

Bendigo Jewel – Turners Crossing

Turners Crossing is a 42ha vineyard 50km northwest of Bendigo, Victoria, located near the evocatively named town of Serpentine. Vines were planted on the site

Penfolds New Releases 2021

After the China shock, it is fair to say that in the Treasury Wine Estates offices at Southbank in Melbourne the release of the new

Wine and the City – An International Affair

Overseas travel has often been used for people to ‘find themselves’. Whether after University, as a gap year, or in one’s later years to prevent