A seriously drinkable wine here which provides a delicious introduction to the Loire Valley in Northern France. It’s your classic...

Light weight, easy drinking reds are growing in popularity at an enormous rate as many consumers are now looking toward...

The Gin Gin – aka Mendoza – chardonnay clone is very Margaret River. Very Western Australia, for that matter. It...

The word reserve on a wine label has come to mean so much . .  and so little. Who makes...

A blend of 92% cabernet, 4% petit verdot and 4% malbec, which was fermented in small open fermenters and then...

A tiny production wine from this small vineyard on Stevens Road. It was a cooler season in Margaret River and...

This comes from the original Lagan planting and is made along similar lines to the Steven’s Road Chardonnay, including the...

Technical side first. The chardonnay from this small vineyard was handpicked and then whole bunch pressed to French oak barriques,...

We recently looked at the excellent Walton’s Block Grenache from this producer, an old block of vines from the Clare....

Around 70% Eden Valley fruit and 30% Barossa, sourced from the sub-regions of Ebenezer and Moppa, the various parcels of...

Sourced from the ancient vines from Eden Valley, with yields which stubbornly refuse to exceed one tonne/acre, the blend is...

From the southwest of Western Australia, this is a bit of a throwback but a welcome one. Late harvest Riesling...

The rise of Aussie Grenache continues to gather pace. Whether you prefer McLaren Vale or the Barossa hardly matters, we...

Shiraz made by the O’Leary Walker team for $15? Someone is surely taking the proverbial here. These guys are consummate...

A thoroughly pleasant example of a local sparkler, made in the Blanc de Blancs style (meaning made from only white...

A pleasing and easy drinking Shiraz, made from Riverland fruit, blended with some McLaren Vale Shiraz. The winemaker is Renae...

I’m still not sure that there wasn’t a misprint somewhere along the line. A mature Clare Riesling from a top...

In recent years, a smattering of Monty’s (who is going to try and pronounce Montepulciano?) have appeared from Aussie wineries....

Any wine crafted at the hands of well-known Barossa winemaker, Peter Leske, is always worth a look. This is a...

Mt Barker (not the one in Western Australia) is situated at the southern end of the Adelaide Hills and is...

Sieben Klon. Does that not sound like a Star Wars villain? Fear not, it is simply German for ‘seven clones’....

Good Margaret River Chardonnay is one of the jewels of the Aussie wine industry. And this is a good one....

This straight Cabernet was hand-picked across a range of different levels of ripeness to add extra complexity to the wine....

The great Aussie blend is encountered less often in the West than we find throughout most of the rest of...