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Brokenwood Semillon 2022 Hunter Valley
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 12 December 2025
• 1 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
Andy Howard MW
Friday 7 November 2025
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Not 100% sure this South Australian producer deserves quite such prominence on these pages, but in response to popular demand...
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Every year around Australia Day at the end of January the Australians have staged a massive wine tasting for the...
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All roads seem to lead inexorably to Frank Mitolo at the moment. See Roger Jones’s enthusiastic advocacy, Mainly Mitolo tasting...
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Roger Jones of The Harrow Inn, currently touring Australia, sends the following recommendation. What do you do if you want...
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See my tasting notes on the Mitolo range and some other South Australian reds. Our intrepid explorer Down Under, Roger...
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Allow me to present a selection of South Australian reds (and one rosé) – mainly from Mitolo. I’m publishing these...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. The comforting news for anyone whose partner is soon to set...
Tasting articles
The scented Pinot Gris/Grigio grape is certainly the flavour of the month in many parts of the world. It has...
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Now is a great time to be buying wine for airlines, and indeed for any of us to be buying...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Here’s a burning question: where in...
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Went to a very interesting tasting yesterday at Australia House in London called Independents Day. It was designed to answer...
Nick on restaurants
Twenty years ago Barry McDonald, then a young New Zealander and probably the best waiter I ever employed, knocked on...
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American wine writer Dan Berger gave this year’s Wine Press Club of New South Wales Annual Lecture (below) in Sydney...
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Attentive visitors to this site will know that Egon Müller, producer of truly great Saar wine from the Scharzhofberger vineyard...
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I thought you might be interested in these views just in on the immediate effects of Robert M Parker Jr’s...
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After a hiatus following the departure of long-term winemaker John Durham from Cape Mentelle, the LVMH subsidiary will take on...
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