Max on Oz It never rains but it pours Floods and drought collide in eastern Australia. The last time the cellars... 3 Jan 2023 Max Allen
Max on Oz 20 years under screwcap … Do screwcaps preserve wines during a glorious evolution, or stunt their development... 1 Nov 2022 Max Allen
Max on Oz Grosset – a biodynamics sceptic converted The vineyards, and wines, of Mount Horrocks and Grosset have been revolutionised... 5 Sep 2022 Max Allen
Max on Oz Coaxing wine from a red desert The Chalmers family in Australia's inland wine engine room are at it... 4 Jul 2022 Max Allen
Max on Oz Australia – a little short of 2022s La Niña wreaked havoc only selectively and Australia's 2022 vintage sounds rather... 2 May 2022 Max Allen
Max on Oz 2014 – Australia in review 7 April 2022 This week’s Throwback Thursday revisits the hot 2014, in... 7 Apr 2022 Max Allen
Max on Oz Too much of a good thing? Not for the first time, Australia has an embarrassing wine surplus and... 2 Mar 2022 Max Allen
Max on Oz Bag-in-box rehabilitated Australia invented bag-in-box wine, and went on to invent many a name... 3 Jan 2022 Max Allen
Max on Oz Lockdown Down Under Max describes how Australia has become a nation divided by the pandemic... 1 Nov 2021 Max Allen
Max on Oz Smoke taint – the Australian consumers' view Some smoke-affected wines are going down a storm Down Under. See also... 6 Sep 2021 Max Allen
Max on Oz The return of the corkscrew After 20 years' devotion to screwcaps in Australia, there are signs of... 5 Jul 2021 Max Allen
Max on Oz Acknowledgement of Country in Australia This Aboriginal depiction of a vineyard in the Yarra Valley was made... 3 May 2021 Max Allen
Max on Oz Australian wine after China Peter Gago of Penfolds was pictured above at the 2017 launch of... 1 Mar 2021 Max Allen
Max on Oz Writing under the influence The background to Max's hugely original new book about Australian grog. See... 4 Jan 2021 Max Allen
Max on Oz Unsustainable arguments The subject of Max's column this month is all too obvious: an... 21 Oct 2020 Max Allen
Max on Oz After the apocalypse How smoke taint and a pandemic have forced Australia’s winemakers to adapt... 2 Sep 2020 Max Allen