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The rise of wine dinners
How restaurateurs and wine people work together over a meal. The phrase ‘wine dinner’ must strike anyone reading a wine website as rather strange. After all, I hear you say...
Nick Lander
Sunday 22 February 2026
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Wines of the week
Pikes, Traditionale Riesling, Clare Valley
The professionals’ pick for rock-solid Riesling at a reasonable price. From $14.99, £13. At a gathering for emerging leaders on Wines of Western Australia’s Cultivate Leadership programme, the emergees were...
Richard Hemming MW
Friday 20 February 2026
• 1 min read
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Firstly, New Zealand’s leading...
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The worst part of the 28-hour journey back home from the centre of Adelaide last Thursday was crossing London, thanks...
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Rob Bowen, the talented Western Australian winemaker who was, amazingly, invited to leave Constellation recently (see Shock redundancy in WA)...
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Online trading platforms accessible to all are proliferating in the wine market. London fine wine trader Bordeaux Index was the...
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From £11.99, $18.67, Aus$14.20 Find this wine
As I pointed out in Treacly treasure from Barossa and Rutherglen late last...
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10 Jun - tickets for this tasting are now sold out apparently. Though of course the four on offer to...
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Here are notes on some decidedly superior Australian wines to keep us going while Julia completes her tour of Australia...
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See indomitable Julia's reports on Day 1 , Day 2 , Day 3 and Day 4 . At last night's...
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See indomitable Julia's reports on Day 1 , Day 2 and Day 3 . Today, Thursday, I have even less...
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See also Julia's reports on Day 1 and Day 2. Last night's dinner was another opportunity to taste wines that...
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News of recent developments that I strongly commend to you. See www.adelaideaca.com.au for news of what Constellation are up to...
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