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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
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 12 December 2025
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Protests in France, Domaine Sigalas acquisition, Vinarchy to cull wine brands
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 28 November 2025
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At last month's annual Australia Day tasting in London I tasted a host of sparkling wines in search of good...
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All the talk between wine people has been of the exceptional Australian heatwave that has been ravaging the country and...
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There is wonderful news below, just in from Wine Australia, announcing whom they have chosen as participants in a ground-breaking...
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The last Saturday of November saw a most unusual encounter between the so-called Old and New Worlds in the company...
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Anne McLennan of Cleggett Wines, secretary of the Langhorne Creek Winemakers' Association, wrote to me out of the blue from...
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I hear it was snowing in London last week. Well it wasn’t a great deal warmer in Sydney the week...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Just as the Australian wine industry...
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Very sad news that Dr Bailey Carrodus, founder of Yarra Yering and pioneer of Australia’s now hugely signficant Yarra Valley...
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It’s a sign of the times that the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation’s information arm, until recently more used to...
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I tasted these 64 Australian white wines blind last March when they had been submitted as candidates for British Airways...
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I recently asked a close observer of the Australian wine scene what the current hot topics are there and here...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. I sat with two Australian winemakers...
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In July 2007, an amazing medical breakthrough was announced. It concerned an American man who had been in a constant...
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Latest figures for Australian wine exports, for the year ended April 2008, make gloomy reading for an industry predicated on...
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