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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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Free for all A drive round the Barossa Valley in South Australia with veteran winemaker Colin Glaetzer last February made an indelible impression...
Tasting articles As outlined in Barossa Valley – growers turn winemakers in wine news, the Barossa is one of Australia’s most distinctive...
Don't quote me Every year the excellent wine faculties of Adelaide/Roseworthy, Charles Sturt/Wagga Wagga and several other Australian universities churn out scores of...
Inside information Here’s the background to the fascinating tasting reported in tasting notes as RSVP – Australian v the Rest of the...
Tasting articles The background to this completely blind tasting of Australia v Some of the Best of the Rest and what I...
Don't quote me ‘Jacobs Creek trounces Trimbach’ could, roughly, be the headline for a fascinating blind tasting exercise staged at Australia House in...
Free for all To red wine lovers, Australia is most famous for Shiraz but it produces almost three-quarters as much Cabernet Sauvignon, the...
Tasting articles Below are current vintages of 65 of many of the finest Cabernets and Bordeaux blends made on either side of...
Free for all Hugh Johnson’s classic Pocket Wine Book does not even have an entry for Langhorne Creek. The name hardly has the...
Tasting articles See also Coonawarra and other Australian classics. This was a revelation – a series of Rieslings, mainly from the famous...
Tasting articles The following are notes on some fine, current reds from Coonawarra, then some assorted reds from elsewhere, and brief notes...
Inside information They say August is a slow news month but there could hardly be a story more newsworthy than the fact...
Inside information Earlier this week Brian Croser of Petaluma, South Australia was made Decanter Man of the Year 2004 at a dinner...
Inside information Andrew Caillard MW and Stewart Langton of Langton's Fine Wine Auctions, Australia's Christie's and Sotheby's rolled in to one, sent...
Inside information News of the 2004 harvest to date suggests that the southern hemisphere wine lake is even deeper than it was...
Free for all Those representing Australian wine in the UK have been feeling particularly sensitive in the last two or three years. As...
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