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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
Wine news in 5
Flooding in Bordeaux and Victoria, alleged bribery at Southern Glazer's, tariff update
Also news on Germany’s Henkell group buying out legendary Cava company Freixenet (pictured above) and lawsuits on France’s copper fungicide bans. Before I get to global news, I would like...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 7 March 2026
• 1 min read
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Simon Reilly continues his assessment of the implications of the Brexit vote last June.
Three months have now passed since...
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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...
Tasting articles
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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During my recent stay in China (see Australasia here we come) I saw very strong signs of the diversification of...
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I spent the first 18 years of my life in a village of 40 people and, I have to confess...
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A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. See also Australia's slimline Chardonnays, Australian Shiraz –...
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See also the Australian tasting articles published this week on Chardonnay and Shiraz. Blame the Australian predilection for abbreviations for...
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