Anyone who has ever flown in to Australia knows how paranoid Australians are about imported insects and germs. Passengers are routinely sprayed before being allowed to disembark on to...

⁞From $7.99, £6.66,12.50 Swiss francs, Aus$13.99 Find this wine You may remember there was a bit of a hoo-ha about the 2009 vintage of this wine. As I described here , it was...

This article was commissioned by the Sydney Morning Herald for a special food and drink supplement guest edited by Heston Blumenthal. See  Australian top Chardonnays tasted blind , also...

Ask most Australian winemakers about their 2011 vintage, and a dark glower spreads across their features. After a decade of drought, 2011 may have finally heralded rain, but it brought with it...

See also our collection of more than 200 tasting notes on fine Australian wines . If I were Julian Castagna , or Claudio Radenti, or Vanya Cullen , or Tim Kirk (pictured), or Tom...

Tai-Ran Niew, a refugee from the world of finance most recently based in Washington DC, now considering a career in wine, has just made his first trip to South Australia and sent this report of...

Following my recent look at some great Australian verticals , here is an altogether more random compendium of wines from down under. It shows, I think, the marvellous depth and scope of quality...

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....

From $9.99, £8.99, Aus$17.99 Find this wine Sitting here in San Francisco, having just flown across the Pacific from Beijing for a couple of days’ worth of celebrations to mark Ridge...

As British Airways, like so many of the world's established airlines, grapples with what seem to be almost intractable problems, I thought it appropriate to publish some tasting notes from the...

What a shame it is that the global balance of mongering is so askew. Wail as we might, mongering of fish and cheese becomes scarcer whilst mongering of war and hate seems to proliferate. If only...

Barely two weeks after Julia finished reporting in detail on all the hundreds of wines she tasted during this year's inaugural Landmark Australia Tutorial, Wine Australia announce that they...

This is the complete text of a talk given by Brian Croser during the Landmark Australia tutorial, on the evening of the tasting described here . The full title was 'A bold vision of...

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...