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Coonawarra – past, present and future
A hotspot for Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz in South Australia just keeps getting hotter. For Sue Bell, there has never been a better time to be making wine in Coonawarra...
Max Allen
Thursday 25 September 2025
• 2 min read
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Victoria's stars – Pinot Gris and Shiraz
Tamlyn Currin
Tuesday 2 September 2025
• 13 min read
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The complex story of a Chinese acquisition in Australia. Changyu is China’s biggest wine company, which makes it both substantial...
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… and rewarding Tam and Jancis with heady verticals of Grange, Bin 389, Yattarna and a host of Special Bins...
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Superb wines from minutely defined plots thanks to a winemaker with no formal training (photo credit: Mike Smith).
Amelia Nolan...
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A vast array of high-end Australian Shiraz wines shown in London proves that p ower and elegance are not incompatible...
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Fine wine manager Tom King writes this entertaining entry to our 2024 wine writing competition about a sparkling-wine-related mishap. See...
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Volumes of their keenly anticipated 2019 single-vineyard wines are so low that they are also releasing a couple of their...
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In South Australia, giving away grapes turns out to make good business sense. Above, winemakers involved in Project 5255, vintage...
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Bedazzled by choice, Jancis tries to pick a plum from Yangarra's brilliant range of organic wines from Rhône grape varieties...
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The 2023 Trophy Wine Show provided a window on the current state of South African wine. A shorter version of...
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The first of four tasting articles inspired by South Africa's most rigorous wine competition. See also Trophy Wine Show 2023...
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13 April 2023 Republished free today, in our Throwback Thursday series, this milestone report is the first time in Max...
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The distinctive genius of the Henschke family in vineyard and cellar is delightfully evident. Above, the Hill of Grace vineyard...
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Tam finds balance and beauty in a selection of 'kind wines' from venerable vines in South Australia.
Back in August...
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Two current vintages of an under-appreciated marvel are going for a song.
2018 from AU$14.99, €10.90, NZ$19.95, HK$160, 160 Chinese...
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Kirsty Hill is the head of marketing at DMG Fine Wine Australia, producer of wines under the Handpicked brand: 'I...
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Melanie Gilcrist writes, ' While I realise Tahbilk doesn't exactly fit the bill for unknown, there's a beautiful story about...
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