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
Max on Oz 'The DRC of the southern hemisphere'? Australia's most famous Pinot producer has changed hands. Max finds out what... 30 Jun 2020 Max Allen
Max on Oz Australia – a lucky country? One Australian family winery’s reactions to living with pandemic-related restrictions, restrictions that... 28 Apr 2020 Max Allen
Max on Oz Smoke gets in your eyes A cool assessment of the effects – both marked and negligible –... 10 Mar 2020 Max Allen
Max on Oz Catastrophic bushfires in the Adelaide Hills Max has filed his bimonthly column a little early this month, for... 24 Dec 2019 Max Allen