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Margaret River v the world
From a forest of wine glasses, a comprehensive exploration of Margaret River’s best bottles and their international competitors. Including a preview of some of the beauties being poured at our...
Richard Hemming MW
Monday 23 February 2026
• 2 min read
Nick on restaurants
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
Wines of the week
Pikes, Traditionale Riesling, Clare Valley
Richard Hemming MW
Friday 20 February 2026
• 1 min read
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Max on Oz
Floods and drought collide in eastern Australia.
The last time the cellars flooded at Mitchelton was 1974, just after the...
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15 December 2022 We're republishing this just for fun, with a few updates, and would welcome any further suggestions via...
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The far south-western tip of Australia makes up in quality what it lacks in quantity. Cabernet, then Chardonnay, made the...
Max on Oz
Do screwcaps preserve wines during a glorious evolution, or stunt their development?
In 1977, when Clare Valley winemaker Andrew Mitchell...
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Answers to burgundy from Australia's coolest terroir. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See more...
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All Tolpuddle Chardonnays so far released, in some rather fine glasses. Read more in A totemic Tasmanian.
Long-standing readers of...
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A ton of tasting notes from our Singapore correspondent.
Gramona's Font Jui, pictured above, is one of many wines I...
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This year's final set of announcements of these great diversity and inclusion initiatives.
We have already announced the first tranche...
Max on Oz
The vineyards, and wines, of Mount Horrocks and Grosset have been revolutionised, much to Jeffrey Grosset's surprise.
Stephanie Toole lifts...
Nick on restaurants
Memories of one of Britain's great self-taught chefs, cookbook writers and provisioners. Alastair Little, the chef who recently died aged...
Wines of the week
Not just one but two stunningly well-made dry whites, one a whippersnapper, the other rather majestically mature.
Vasse Felix from...
Wines of the week
Yarra Valley makes it into our wine of the week pages after a seven-year absence, and it's Giant Steps again...
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And for my next trick… Is there no end to Penfolds’ novelties?
Today is the official release day of this...
Max on Oz
The Chalmers family in Australia's inland wine engine room are at it again. This time (almost) without water, and with...
Wines of the week
A Coleridgian tribute to an award-winning Western Australian red.
From 453.75 Czech koruna, £17.95, $22.95, €21.40, AU$32.99, HK$170, 1,200 Thai...
Wines of the week
An enthusiastic recommendation from our eminent Australian columnist of a wine made by a British Master of Wine.
From AU$38...
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