Many of the greatest wines in the world show themselves from day 1. Power, balance and complexity leap from the...

Good, everyday wine at a fair price is a right. It is a well-made wine within financial reach, the one...

The Octavius is one of the most historic wines in the Yalumba collection, stretching back to 1988. It started out...

Former Wolf Blass winemaker, Clare Dry, took up senior winemaking reins at Seppelt in November last year.Months later, with the...

In the search for seriously cool climate chardonnay, Western Australia’s Great Southern is one of the most underrated wine regions...

Crafting classy pinot noir can be hard work with this variety particularly fussy about where and how it is grown....

To celebrate the opening of the Pontos Hills winery in the Coal River Valley, Jansz have launched a new Cuvée...

Few wines have had a harder act to follow than this one, on the heels of the stupendous 2018. And...

A wine festooned with accolades. For me, the question is can it, or perhaps will it, match the 1986 Graveyard?...

The team at Brokenwood noted that the 18’s ‘have finesse and tannins’, while the 19’s ‘are a little more extracted’....

Another stunning young Hunter Shiraz. Fresh and supple with impressive length. Still, unsurprisingly, very youthful. Dry herbs and dark fruits....

From such a stunning year, this was always going to be a bit special. Only around the 160 cases made....

From a truly brilliant year for reds in the Hunter, this is as impressive as you would wish. Spices, ripe...

Another stunning ILR, again from the Oakey Creek Vineyard. When young, the team saw this as slightly lean and mean,...

Another stunning semillon, a decade old but as fresh as one could imagine. The choice for ILR from this superb...

It is always a joy to spend some time with winelovers from offshore and then offer them an aged Hunter...

If this wine gets the nod as the ILR Reserve Semillon for this vintage, it will be the first time...

As mentioned, this is a strong contender for the ILR Reserve from this vintage. ILR, for those not aware, celebrates...

The Oakey Creek Vineyard is proving to be a gem for the team at Brokenwood – and elsewhere, as several...

There was a time when Brokenwood was the new kid on the block, jostling for a place at the big...

Bottled in tall halves, in many respects, this is one of the most interesting wines made on the Granite Belt,...

Another variety that is attracting some real interest on the Granite Belt – I think the jury is out as...

Under cork, as are all these Ballandean reds, this is also very dark in colour. The Puglisi family has many...

One of the things that Queensland’s Granite Belt does very well is alternative varieties – they call them ‘Strange Birds’....