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Missing buttery Meursault? Read on! A much shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times . Californian Dave Ramey, known as 'Professor Chardonnay', is shown above (©...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 2 August 2025
• 1 min read
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Judging at the Margaret River Wine Show
Richard Hemming MW
Monday 6 November 2023
• 1 min read
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Cape Mentelle's 40th anniversary Cabernet tasting
Some of the world's top Cabernets compared blind. So where does Bordeaux stand? See also Whither Bordeaux? In 1982 David Hohnen, pictured above more or less then, founder of Margaret...
Jancis Robinson
Tuesday 20 December 2022
• 4 min read
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The far south-western tip of Australia makes up in quality what it lacks in quantity. Cabernet, then Chardonnay, made the...
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Not just one but two stunningly well-made dry whites, one a whippersnapper, the other rather majestically mature.
Vasse Felix from...
Max on Oz
Max describes how Australia has become a nation divided by the pandemic and its effects.
Virginia and Cath Willcock live...
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Alistair Cooper MW tastes Vasse Felix's top Margaret River wine from the first to the latest release.
I have long...
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Cullen Wines are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, half a...
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A Western Australia sustainability hero celebrates a half-century.
Unable to travel from Australia – there are far worse places to...
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A brilliant pair of Western Australians. See also this news of Australian wine.
Riesling from AU$25, £18.95, $27.99, 3,090 roubles...
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An unusually deep vertical of an Australian classic.
I was last in Margaret River in 2017 for the 50th anniversary...
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The first entry for our 2020 summer wine writing competition is from Mike Bartlett, 'a 53-year-old Londoner, passionate amateur wine...
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Good wines but too many constraints.
Sponsored on this occasion by Australian construction company Built and held in the security-conscious...
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Hugely enjoyable tastings with the owners and/or winemakers of Cloudburst, Corymbia, Cullen and Swinney. One long-established name that has evolved...
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See also today Max Allen's review of a closely related book as well as my reports on the Cape Mentelle...
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As a taster for Richard's Australian Week this week, we present Julia's latest report on some of the less well...
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For my other adventures in Western Australia’s Great Southern at the end of 2015, see On the road to Frankland...
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At the end of last year I spent three days judging in the Margaret River Wine Show in Western Australia...
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Christmas is not my favourite time of year. I cannot blame it on some childhood trauma – unless it is...
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