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Mount Towrong Vineyard December

Mount Towrong

To the southeast of Mount Macedon is the less well-known but equally picturesque Mount Towrong, home to a beautiful vineyard of the same name. George

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Caught Purple Handed

Purple is such an evocative colour, particularly in wine, where it represents youth, vitality, and richness. Anyone who’s spent time at a winery during vintage

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Castle Rock 2023

Angelo and Wendy Diletti are the founders of Castle Rock Estate. Rob Diletti, their son, now drives the estate. He has a wealth of experience

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Hawker at the Helm

Brendan Hawker’s first full flagship release and it’s clear he has been paying attention, to both the heritage of style and with an emphasis on

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Quealy – Mornington Gold

Quealy is the Mornington Peninsula venture of Kathleen Quealy, husband Kevin McCarthy, their son Tom McCarthy, and viticulturist Lucas Blanck, producing some incredibly compelling wines.

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Grapes For Good

If we personified the South Australian GI as a family, Langhorne Creek would be the middle child – a consistent high achiever, rarely acknowledged. Despite

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Jackson Brooke

Jackson Brooke is an affable bloke who successfully turned his love of drinking wine into making it. While studying a science degree at University of

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Barossa Guide 2023

A sense of unity is the Barossa wine region’s great strength. Almost all of its successes since the 1840s stem from the local wine industry

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Wheeler

Dale Wheeler is a Brisbane native who’s been living in Melbourne since 2012. After working in an ad agency, the pull towards winemaking was unstoppable

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Glass Wars

Imagine being a premium Sparkling wine or Champagne producer. You spend years perfecting winemaking techniques and crafting quality wines to see much of your product

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Riversdale Estate

Nestled underneath the imposing dishes of the University Of Tasmania’s radio telescope array which look deep into the heavens at the start of the Coal

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