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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
• 1 min read
Tasting articles
Gippsland comes of age
This cool-climate Australian region is finally living up to its early promise. Winegrowers Patrick Sullivan and Megan McLaren are pictured above (credit: Guy Lavoipierre). When I moved to Melbourne in...
Max Allen
Friday 20 February 2026
• 2 min read
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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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...
Tasting articles
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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The moon is credited with influencing many things. Werewolves, for instance, which like all forms of inter-species transmogrification is rather...
Tasting articles
As reported in Australia changes its focus, the Australian wine industry is keenly aware that it needs to brush up...
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Like many wine aficionados, I am perpetually intrigued by esoteric blends. They may never infiltrate the likes of Bordeaux, but...
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Keith Mugford of the prime Margaret River producer Moss Wood replies at length to some of my recent observations about...
Tasting articles
Last week we published The New Australia – 250 tasting notes, a collection of notes on many of the wines...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See also The New Australia –...
Tasting articles
See also my overview Australia changes its focus, Australian Rieslings and Australian Semillons .
Below are tasting notes on about...
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