I was up to my eyes in 2009 bordeaux when Wine Australia announced the participants of this year's Landmark Australia Tutorial so please forgive the delay in my relaying this information....

After the excellent Chardonnay tasting, Day 4 of the Landmark Australia tutorial continued with a blind tasting of Pinot Noir, selected and introduced by Tom Carson, chief winemaker at...

Below is a complete list of all the articles related to Julia's trip to Australia in June and all the amazing wines she tasted there, in order of publication. Julia makes Oz Hall...

Robert Mann, youthful and inspiring winemaker at Cape Mentelle in Western Australia, introduced and selected the wines for the Cabernet and Cabernet blends session of the Landmark Australia...

This first session of the Wine Australia Landmark Tutorial , staged in the Barossa, was presented by Michael Hill Smith MW, Andrew Caillard MW and Dr Tony Jordan, the three tutors who were...

See indomitable Julia's reports on Day 1 , Day 2 , Day 3 and Day 4 . At last night's dinner, fatigue was starting to show among the participants and the tutors and so the...

See indomitable Julia's reports on Day 1 , Day 2 and Day 3 . Today, Thursday, I have even less time than usual between the end of the last tasting and dinner, so I have to...

See also Julia's reports on Day 1 and Day 2 . Last night's dinner was another opportunity to taste wines that couldn't be squeezed into the day's tastings (see list below). To me the...

See also  Landmark Australia - Day 1 Before I say anything about Day 2, I should mention some of the wines we had with dinner last night. As well as filling our days with...

Our Julia is currently in Australia, having been chosen as one of only a dozen opinion formers from around the globe for Landmark Australia , ' the wine industry’s most significant investment...

Here is the last of Julia's wonderfully detailed reports on the tasting marathon that was Landmark Australia .  She must be thoroughly relieved but I think we have all benefited from her...

A sparkling start to Day 5 of the Landmark Tutorial with two extremely experienced winemakers: consultant Dr Tony Jordan (Domaine Chandon, Cloudy Bay, Cape Mentelle, most recently the Estates...

This tasting was hard labour. Not because the wines weren’t good but because it was the third major tasting session of the day, all the wines were tasted blind and we had to answer a whole...

Day 4 of the Landmark Australia tutorial continued with winemaker Tom Carson’s selection of Pinot Noir. See these two short videos for his summary history of Pinot Noir in Australia and...

Day 4 of the Landmark Tutorial started with an excellent tasting of Chardonnays, presented by the very personable Michael Hill Smith AM, who became Australia's first ever Master of Wine in...