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Margaret River v the world
From a forest of wine glasses, a comprehensive exploration of Margaret River’s best bottles and their international competitors. Including a preview of some of the beauties being poured at our...
Richard Hemming MW
Monday 23 February 2026
• 2 min read
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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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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti – biting the bullet in 2023
Julia Harding MW
Tuesday 17 February 2026
• 2 min read
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Richard tastes two big wines from the world's biggest producer, among others.
One of the more noteworthy wine-trade stories in...
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Proof that co-ops can make excellent wine. Wines from L’Estabel in Cabrières (seen above) and Santadi in southern Sardinia, with...
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Red wines from Carnuntum, Leithaberg and Eisenberg. The first in a series of articles by Julia and Paula reporting on...
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More proof to support Julia's belief that Crete is currently the most exciting wine region in Greece. See also part...
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Following up on Julia's overview of Crete's exciting wine scene, here are tasting notes for wineries A–I. Come back tomorrow...
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One of the world's more energetic winemakers returns to his roots.
Jacques Lurton is on a mission. In 2019, on...
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To follow up on yesterday’s Riesling GG reviews, Paula covers the best of the rest, especially highlighting Spatbürgunder and Silvaner...
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Riesling, Riesling everywhere … but especially in Wiesbaden at last month’s annual VDP GG premiere. Come back tomorrow to read...
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Walter’s uncharacteristic praise for a fine Italian Cabernet Sauvignon, this one from Sardinia, with tasting notes on a mini-vertical, is...
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From Arinto to Vermentino, with Carricante, Picpoul, Ribolla Gialla and many other varieties in between, the California white-wine scene has...
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Above, NZ apples and some of the country's finest wines. Fill your boots …
Kumeu River is a family company...
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A hard-nosed assessment of the Bordeaux trade's current attempt to widen its portfolio outside the Gironde. Above, Zuccardi's Finca Canal...
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South Africa's best-known wine authority Michael Fridjhon reviews the latest from South Africa's most highly valued wine producer. Above, the...
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A successful hairdresser turned transhemispherical Pinot producer.
This Jane Eyre is no novelist but the Melbourne-born third and last element...
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Savour some of the wine world’s greatest bargains. We’re publishing these tasting notes as soon as possible during the currency...
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Some of Oregon’s finest here, as well as a tantalising vertical from a Bordeaux-owned Sonoma estate.
I tasted most of...
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