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Visiting Great Southern
Discovering Western Australia’s wine wilderness. Come back tomorrow for reviews of wines from Great Southern. Wherever you stand in the Great Southern region, the landscape undulates concentrically away. Under such...
Richard Hemming MW
Wednesday 11 March 2026
• 7 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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Some of the world's top Cabernets compared blind. So where does Bordeaux stand? See also Whither Bordeaux?
In 1982 David...
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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...
Wines of the week
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...
Tasting articles
Alistair Cooper MW tastes Vasse Felix's top Margaret River wine from the first to the latest release.
I have long...
Wines of the week
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Cullen Wines are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, half a...
Tasting articles
A Western Australia sustainability hero celebrates a half-century.
Unable to travel from Australia – there are far worse places to...
Wines of the week
A brilliant pair of Western Australians. See also this news of Australian wine.
Riesling from AU$25, £18.95, $27.99, 3,090 roubles...
Tasting articles
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...
Tasting articles
Good wines but too many constraints.
Sponsored on this occasion by Australian construction company Built and held in the security-conscious...
Tasting articles
Hugely enjoyable tastings with the owners and/or winemakers of Cloudburst, Corymbia, Cullen and Swinney. One long-established name that has evolved...
Tasting articles
See also today Max Allen's review of a closely related book as well as my reports on the Cape Mentelle...
Tasting articles
As a taster for Richard's Australian Week this week, we present Julia's latest report on some of the less well...
Tasting articles
For my other adventures in Western Australia’s Great Southern at the end of 2015, see On the road to Frankland...
Tasting articles
At the end of last year I spent three days judging in the Margaret River Wine Show in Western Australia...
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