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Project 5255 vintage 2022 winemakers
Max on Oz Free grapes to a good home In South Australia, giving away grapes turns out to make good business sense. Above, winemakers involved in Project 5255, vintage 2022: Natillie Johnston, Riley Harrison (centre) and Greg Clack (photo...
Australia 2023 total crush by grape colour
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Screwcaps
Max on Oz 20 years under screwcap … Do screwcaps preserve wines during a glorious evolution, or stunt their development? In 1977, when Clare Valley winemaker Andrew Mitchell... Read more
Grosset in BD vineyard
Max on Oz Grosset – a biodynamics sceptic converted The vineyards, and wines, of Mount Horrocks and Grosset have been revolutionised, much to Jeffrey Grosset's surprise. Stephanie Toole lifts... Read more
Birds eye view of Chalmers bushvines
Max on Oz Coaxing wine from a red desert The Chalmers family in Australia's inland wine engine room are at it again. This time (almost) without water, and with... Read more
P J Charteris of Hunter Valley
Max on Oz Australia – a little short of 2022s La Niña wreaked havoc only selectively and Australia's 2022 vintage sounds rather like Europe's 2021. But with Australian wine's all-important... Read more
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Max on Oz ​2014 – Australia in review 7 April 2022 This week’s Throwback Thursday revisits the hot 2014, in counterpoint to Tuesday’s report on the cool 2022... Read more
Australian red wine grapes
Max on Oz Too much of a good thing? Not for the first time, Australia has an embarrassing wine surplus and would love to fill the gap left by... Read more
Gonzo bag in boxes
Max on Oz Bag-in-box rehabilitated Australia invented bag-in-box wine, and went on to invent many a name for it, including 'cask wine'. It has now... Read more
Willcox sisters, Easter 2020
Max on Oz Lockdown Down Under Max describes how Australia has become a nation divided by the pandemic and its effects. Virginia and Cath Willcock live... Read more
The Lost Vintage rosé
Max on Oz Smoke taint – the Australian consumers' view Some smoke-affected wines are going down a storm Down Under. See also Smoke taint – a winemaker's view, Smoke taint... Read more
Corks by Renzo d'Sousa
Max on Oz The return of the corkscrew After 20 years' devotion to screwcaps in Australia, there are signs of a little push-back. Is cork making a comeback... Read more
Samuel de Pury's vineyard in Yarra Valley by William Barak c 1898 - Museum d'Ethnographie, Neuchatel
Max on Oz Acknowledgement of Country in Australia This Aboriginal depiction of a vineyard in the Yarra Valley was made 120 years ago by a man called William... Read more
Peter Gago at g3 launch in HK
Max on Oz Australian wine after China Peter Gago of Penfolds was pictured above at the 2017 launch of the luxury g3 blend in Hong Kong. Well... Read more
Dalwood Estate, Hunter Valley, New South Wales
Max on Oz Writing under the influence The background to Max's hugely original new book about Australian grog. See Tam's enthusiastic review of Intoxicating . Connections was... Read more
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Max on Oz Unsustainable arguments The subject of Max's column this month is all too obvious: an argument about academic attribution that is gripping the... Read more
Brokenwood cellar door counter in the Hunter Valley
Max on Oz After the apocalypse How smoke taint and a pandemic have forced Australia’s winemakers to adapt and innovate. ‘How are you going?’ asks Clonakilla... Read more
Entrance pillar, Bass Phillip, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
Max on Oz 'The DRC of the southern hemisphere'? Australia's most famous Pinot producer has changed hands. Max finds out what is planned, and hoped for. When I visited... Read more