They say August is a slow news month but there could hardly be a story more newsworthy than the fact that Australia’s most prestigious prize for a young red has just been won by a wine from the Yellowtail, sorry [yellow tail]®, range. Yellowtail (may I please drop those silly square brackets and lower case Y and all that for this intimate communication?) has been the export success story of recent Australian wine history.
While Southcorp crumbled and Hardys agglomerated, the Casella family’s Yellowtail label hopped over the Pacific to take the US market by storm, its Shiraz and...