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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
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Côte d'Or 2024 – after the misery, an overview
Matthew Hayes
Friday 19 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Alder on America
It is the best of times, and it is the worst of times. In 2013, California celebrated its largest grape...
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From Aus$8.99, €9.60, £6.66 Find this wine Well, here's a surprise! An Australian Chardonnay from one of the worst vintages...
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From $32.98, NZ$41.10, £24.95, €26.90, AE$135 Find this wine New Zealand may have made its name and achieved remarkable vineyard...
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See California Wine Summit – a guide.The California Wine Summit, an intense and rewarding week tasting some of the state's...
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Felton Road has a total of more than 32 hectares of vines but Bell Hill is a two-person operation with...
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From €14.95, £14.95 Find this wine I've been itching to recommend this wine ever since I first tasted it more...
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See also my introduction to Waipara and North Canterbury and notes from the regional tasting.
Below are my notes on...
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Forgive repetition but Raj Parr's Central Coast Chardonnays, and Pinot Noirs, just get better...
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⁞From $7.99, £6.66,12.50 Swiss francs, Aus$13.99 Find this wine You may remember there was a bit of a hoo-ha about...
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This article began as a comparison of three Australian Chardonnays currently on special offer at Britain's most wine-minded supermarket Waitrose...
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There seems to be a strong force field centred on Burgundy's Côte d'Or driving more and more Americans towards the...
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From £14.50 Find this wine If you go for that struck-match quality in your white burgundy, this wine is a...
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See also Australia's love-hate relationships. Chardonnay is arguably the varietal that Australia is best at currently. At least, to palates...
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From £15.60, Ca$29.95, Sing$54, Aus$129.95 for six Find this wine This wine of the week represents our current preoccupation of...
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It is almost two years since I enjoyed a blind tasting of (mostly) Australian Pinot Noir with Tom Carson, winemaker...
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One of several general tastings organised at last month's well-attended Australian generic tasting at London's Saatchi Gallery was a snapshot...
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