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Nick on restaurants The rise of wine dinners

How restaurateurs and wine people work together over a meal. The phrase ‘wine dinner’ must strike anyone reading a wine website as rather strange. After all, I hear you say...

Nick Lander Sunday 22 February 2026 • 1 min read

Patrick Sullivan & Megan McLaren in Gippsland - Photo by Guy Lavoipierre

Tasting articles Gippsland comes of age

This cool-climate Australian region is finally living up to its early promise. Winegrowers Patrick Sullivan and Megan McLaren are pictured above (credit: Guy Lavoipierre). When I moved to Melbourne in...

Max Allen Friday 20 February 2026 • 2 min read

Two bottles of Pikes Riesling on a table with two partly filled wine glasses beside each bottle

Wines of the week Pikes, Traditionale Riesling, Clare Valley

The professionals’ pick for rock-solid Riesling at a reasonable price. From $14.99, £13. At a gathering for emerging leaders on Wines of Western Australia’s Cultivate Leadership programme, the emergees were...

Richard Hemming MW Friday 20 February 2026 • 1 min read

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Australia's two greatest Chardonnays

Most of the focus of attention on top quality Australian wine is lavished on her red wines but some of...

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Jeffrey Grosset Clare Valley Rieslings

See my earlier comments about the wines in this tasting from Australia's acknowledged King of Riesling. Jeffrey Grosset Polish Hill...

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Whither Peter Lehmann Wines?

Peter Lehmann is one of the most trustworthy names in Barossa – synonymous with fairly priced, reliable expressions of what...

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Australia does not make enough great wine, says Croser

Brian Croser is an industry leader who has constantly upset the industry he leads. Blessed with a superior intellect, a...

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Does Australia make great wine?

Australia's top wines do not make the cut when compared to the world's best, according to industry leader Brian Croser...

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The 2003 vintage in Oz and NZ

Sam Harrop is a New Zealander working for British retailer Marks & Spencer. He has passed his Master of Wine...

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Australian Sauvignon Blanc – some great 2002s

As temperatures rise, even this confirmed Sauvignon Blanc-phobe has to admit that the refreshingly aromatic grape has its uses. In...

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Hill of Grace and its little brother – verticals back to the 1970s

In an Australian wine scene that increasingly seems dominated either by soulless, foreign-owned big companies or cultish fly-by-nights, the Henschkes...

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Now the Brits invade Australia

With the markets a-quiver with rumours that Southcorp is to be gobbled up by the British-based multinational Allied Domecq (so...

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Grosset Watervale Riesling 2002 Clare Valley

Jeffrey Grosset is the acknowledged king of Australian dry Riesling, a category of wine that deserves its own moment of...

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Some favourite new releases from old Australian vines

For stockists in countries other than Britain, try WineSearcher, though it might be safest to specify one vintage earlier as...

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Australia – how are they doing?

If Australian wine producers had egos (which I rather doubt) they must surely find it much more comfortable to visit...