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Richard Hemming surrounded by wine bottles ready for tasting

124 wines reviewed, revealing assorted treasures buried in the far south-western corner of Australia. See also Visiting Great Southern. The remoteness of the Great Southern region, four hours south of...

Richard Hemming MW Thursday 12 March 2026 • 3 min read

Vineyard landscape at West Cape Howe in the Great Southern region

Travel tips Visiting Great Southern

Discovering Western Australia’s wine wilderness. Come back tomorrow for reviews of wines from Great Southern. Wherever you stand in the Great Southern region, the landscape undulates concentrically away. Under such...

Richard Hemming MW Wednesday 11 March 2026 • 1 min read

Wine news in 5 Flooding in Bordeaux and Victoria, alleged bribery at Southern Glazer's, tariff update

Also news on Germany’s Henkell group buying out legendary Cava company Freixenet (pictured above) and lawsuits on France’s copper fungicide bans. Before I get to global news, I would like...

Samantha Cole-Johnson Saturday 7 March 2026 • 1 min read

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Picking Marsanne vines in 2020 in Barossa Valley

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Diary of a Barossa vintage casual – part 2

Samantha regales us with tales of a rather unsatisfactory week. This week was … bleak. While we have started processing...

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Diary of a Barossa vintage casual – part 1

Samantha Cole-Johnson, whom we last encountered pruning in freezing-cold Oregon, begins a series on her current experiences as a cellar...

Interior of Sunda Asian restaurant in Melbourne, Australia

Nick on restaurants

Sunda, a most unusual Asian in Melbourne

Sunda, a recently opened restaurant in Melbourne’s Chinatown, astonished Nick for several reasons. A version of this article is published...

Geoff Waver vines in the Adelaide Hills before the 2019 bushfire

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Australian bushfires and wine – reality check

2 February 2020 Climate change is clearly an extremely emotive topic. Some readers rushed to characterise Brian Croser as a...

Fiona Morrison MW and Louis-Michel Liger-Belair in his cellar

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Five more 2019 wine books

A final round-up: family drama, an academic approach to history, glorious Burgundian visuals, undervalued treasures and – well – you...

Stephen Henschke in their Lenswood vineyard before the 2019 Adelaide Hills fire

Wines of the week

Henschke, Croft Chardonnay 2016 Adelaide Hills

As the Australian bushfires continue to rage, we’re trying to find ways to help. One suggestion is to buy wines...

Salvation Army emergency food truck feeds those fighting Australia's 2019/20 bushfires

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Australian bushfires – ways to help

15 January Seriously scary map of the bushfires as of today here. Buy Australian wine and help them out. See...

Hazel Murphy with UK trade group in Australia, Feb 2019

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Hazel Murphy, loved by all

5 January 2020 Some specific memories of Hazel are appended to this short tribute. 2 January 2020 The woman who...

Fire over vineyards in Adelaide Hills 2019 by Geoff Weaver

Max on Oz

Catastrophic bushfires in the Adelaide Hills

Max has filed his bimonthly column a little early this month, for all the wrong reasons. South Australian winemaker Geoff...

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Our unique Old Vines Register

10 February 2021 If you're looking for the latest information on our Old Vine Register, please see Our Old Vines...

Balloons over Punt Road, Yarra Valley early one November morning

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All change in the Yarra

16 November 2019 Almost 30 new tasting notes that were inadvertently omitted when this article was originally published two days...

Nick on restaurants

Light and shade while eating in Sydney

A great Sri Lankan curry and a great view, but very varied service. Of the many times I have arrived...

John Kirk of Clonakilla mulls over their Canberra estate's exceptional Shiraz

Tasting articles

How has Australian Shiraz evolved?

Alistair Cooper provides an audit, tasting 52 current examples. London’s wine trade was treated to a premium Australia tasting in...

Will Berliner of Cloudburst Wines at 67 Pall Mall

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Cloudburst bursts price ceiling

A Margaret River producer has done what many would like to. A version of this article is published by the...

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Penfolds Collection 2019

The canny South Australian giant has a few extra things up its sleeve this year which will presumably more than...

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Shaw + Smith Pinot Noir 2018 Adelaide Hills

From €24.50 (if you buy 6 bottles), $29.29 (2017 vintage), 2,960 Japanese yen, £27.45, AU$44.99, HK$315, SG$73 (2017 vintage) Find...

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