Australia

Wines of the week From £15.50, Aus$24.90 Find this wine What a joy it is to be able to point out that an Australian...

Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my tasting notes on 50...

Free for all Trevor Mast of Mount Langi Ghiran, one of the leading figures of the Victorian wine industry in Australia, succumbed to...

Nick on restaurants This article was also published in the Financial Times. I arrived in Sydney feeling 'crook', or sick in Australian. This...

Tasting articles Western Australia, as I was told repeatedly at the London Australia Day tasting last month, has had a whole run...

Tasting articles Often a supporting actor rather than a headlining star, Sémillon (unaccented Semillon in Oz) can nevertheless win Oscars in very...

Inside information La Niña and the succession of cool, rainy summers it has inflicted on much of south-east Australia may be making...

Inside information D'Arenberg of McLaren Vale celebrated their centenary last week, jollifications undimmed, I'm told, by the fact that party animal Chester...

Free for all I took this hazy early-morning picture from our hotel room yesterday morning just before the FEIRT two-day Rieslingfest. But what...

Wines of the week From $16.99, Aus$26.50 and £17.99 Find this wine Today, the perfect wine for anyone with a streaming cold such as...

Inside information Updated 29 Nov 2011 Peter Forrestal updates us thus: It would seem that truth is not only the first casualty...

Inside information Ask most Australian winemakers about their 2011 vintage, and a dark glower spreads across their features. After a decade of...

Inside information AUSTRALIA'S MOST EXPENSIVE NEW RELEASE WINE! trumpets news.com.au, in reference to the latest offering from Penfolds. The wine is the...

Tasting articles What follows is evidence to support my theory about Postmodern Australia. I have picked 10 Shirazes and 10 Chardonnays that...

Free for all The rumour mill was spot on. The Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy has just been awarded to Glaetzer-Dixon, Mon Père Shiraz...

Don't quote me The Jimmy Watson Wine Bar still stands in Lygon Street, Melbourne. It was on this site that Jimmy Watson, before...