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Too much wine
The world is awash with unwanted wine. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Above, a wine tank farm in South Australia. Reading about the current...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 17 January 2026
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Wine news in 5
Fires in South Africa, Australia and Argentina, FB bans, state of the US wine industry report
Plus an update on France’s ban on copper-containing fungicides for organic viticulture. Above, fire in South Africa’s Overberg, sent by Malu Lambert. As far as site news this week, our...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 16 January 2026
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Wines of the week
Ministry of Clouds Shiraz 2023 McLaren Vale
A perfectly ordinary extraordinary wine. From €19.60, £28.33, $19.99 (direct from the US importer, K&L Wines). A few months ago, I sat down at a friend’s dinner table on one...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 9 January 2026
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Tasting articles
Sometimes I take part in tastings that seem so important, I worry about doing them justice. This is one of...
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The launch of The Penfolds Collection (sic) has become a carefully stage-managed affair involving winemaker Peter Gago flying round the...
Max on Oz
Update 4 Dec 2016: The Australian government has announced amendments to its proposed WET rebate reforms that address many of...
Tasting articles
See also today's Taxing times for Australia's new wave , a heartfelt column by Max Allen on a challenge to...
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Simon Reilly continues his assessment of the implications of the Brexit vote last June.
Three months have now passed since...
Tasting articles
When you've been making the same cuvée for 40 years, it is perhaps inevitable that it has won a lot...
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I’ve been tasting First Drop wines for several years now and each batch of new releases never fails to impress...
Tasting articles
See this guide to our assemblages. Jancis writes Hard on the heels of Max’s report on Australian terroir yesterday and...
Max on Oz
See also o ur Australian assemblage. ‘Miyurna! Naa marni purrutyi? Ngai nari Kumatpi Marrutya Ngai wangkanthi, ‘Marni naa pudni Kaurna...
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Nine years in the planning, this was a tasting worth waiting for – not just for the subtle and subtly...
Wines of the week
From AU$29.95, £19.99 Find the 2014 Find the 2013 I’ve always had a soft spot for the Roussanne grape. In...
Max on Oz
During the 1970s and 1980s, when the fortunes of the Hunter Valley wine region north of Sydney were in the...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also my tasting notes on these wines.
In...
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See also my overview Australia – the wild ones. Yesterday in London I had the pleasure of tasting current examples...
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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...
Max on Oz
Winemaker Pat Carmody (right) is shaking his head. It’s late February 2016 and his Shiraz crop is nearly ready to...
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