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Ronan Sayburn MS, Sarah Abbott MW and Hannah Tovey at Icons tastings 2026
Free for all Tasting top Chardonnays blind

Take 27 Chardonnay ‘icons’ from around the world and serve them up to 18 accredited tasters … A version of this article is published by the Financial Times . See...

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Tasting articles Waitrose spring 2026 recommendations

Great buys available in the UK and farther afield – including some naturally lower-alcohol wines. Above, left to right: Reon Richter, Leana Coetzee, Mari Branders, Juandre Bruwer – the core...

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Inside information 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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Free for all Anne McLennan of Cleggett Wines, secretary of the Langhorne Creek Winemakers' Association, wrote to me out of the blue from...
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Inside information 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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Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Just as the Australian wine industry...
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Don't quote me 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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Free for all 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...
Inside information I recently asked a close observer of the Australian wine scene what the current hot topics are there and here...
Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. I sat with two Australian winemakers...
Inside information In July 2007, an amazing medical breakthrough was announced. It concerned an American man who had been in a constant...
Free for all Latest figures for Australian wine exports, for the year ended April 2008, make gloomy reading for an industry predicated on...
Inside information 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...
Free for all Like many wine aficionados, I am perpetually intrigued by esoteric blends. They may never infiltrate the likes of Bordeaux, but...
Inside information 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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