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Ministry of Clouds Shiraz 2023 McLaren Vale
A perfectly ordinary extraordinary wine. From €19.60, £28.33, $19.99 (direct from the US importer, K&L Wines). A few months ago, I sat down at a friend’s dinner table on one...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 9 January 2026
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Brokenwood Semillon 2022 Hunter Valley
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Friday 12 December 2025
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Friday 28 November 2025
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Ross Brown carefully pulls the cork from a 37-year-old bottle of wine. ‘This', he says, ‘is one of the Australian...
Tasting articles
When I worked the 2008 vintage in McLaren Vale, Shiraz was the meat and drink of the region. Thousands of...
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1 February 2018 We are republishing free this 2015 tasting article as a complement to Max's latest report from Australia...
Max on Oz
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This article has been syndicated. I’m assuming you are interested in wine. If so, you will have noticed that it...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. I spent all last week tasting 2016 burgundies...
Wines of the week
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Tasting articles
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Nick on restaurants
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Book reviews
Max reviews The Way It Was: A History of the Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry by Peter...
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
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September’s Australian Women in Wine tasting that I report on today was held at London's Australia House. This imposing building...
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