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Brokenwood Semillon 2022 Hunter Valley
A brilliantly buzzy white wine with the power to transform deliciously over many years. And prices start at just €19.90, £21, $20.99. Hunter Valley Semillon is arguably Australia’s most distinctive...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 12 December 2025
• 2 min read
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Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 28 November 2025
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d’Arenberg, The High Trellis Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 McLaren Vale
There’s nothing commercial about this old-vine, organically farmed Cabernet from a family-run winery except perhaps its price. From £15, $19.99. With their distinctive red-stripe branding, the wines from d’Arenberg in...
Andy Howard MW
Friday 7 November 2025
• 1 min read
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As self-appointed chief drum-banger for Semillon, on this site at least – see Australia's magic bullet? from 2009, for example...
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Australia and New Zealand with their high level of winemaking technology and expertise are useful sources of very clean aromatic...
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The indefatigable Penfolds winemaker Peter Gago was in London earlier this summer to show the latest wines from the Penfolds...
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⁞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...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Brian Schmidt is the only vigneron...
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See also Australia's love-hate relationships. Chardonnay is arguably the varietal that Australia is best at currently. At least, to palates...
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This article was commissioned by the Sydney Morning Herald for a special food and drink supplement guest edited by Heston...
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My article on the recent Rutherglen ambush and associated t asting notes on 50 Rutherglen stickies was much commented upon...
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While Julia was concentrating on Western Australia freshness and finesse at the London Australia Day tasting, I meandered more randomly...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. I learnt six years ago on my first visit to Melbourne...
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From £15.50, Aus$24.90 Find this wine What a joy it is to be able to point out that an Australian...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my tasting notes on 50...
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Trevor Mast of Mount Langi Ghiran, one of the leading figures of the Victorian wine industry in Australia, succumbed to...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. I arrived in Sydney feeling 'crook', or sick in Australian. This...
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Western Australia, as I was told repeatedly at the London Australia Day tasting last month, has had a whole run...
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Often a supporting actor rather than a headlining star, Sémillon (unaccented Semillon in Oz) can nevertheless win Oscars in very...
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