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Free for all Recommended richer Chardonnays

Missing buttery Meursault? Read on! A much shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times . Californian Dave Ramey, known as 'Professor Chardonnay', is shown above (©...

Jancis Robinson Saturday 2 August 2025 • 1 min read

Glasses of wine at the Margaret River Wine Show

Don't quote me Judging at the Margaret River Wine Show

Richard Hemming MW Monday 6 November 2023 • 1 min read

Tasting articles Cape Mentelle's 40th anniversary Cabernet tasting

Some of the world's top Cabernets compared blind. So where does Bordeaux stand? See also Whither Bordeaux? In 1982 David Hohnen, pictured above more or less then, founder of Margaret...

Jancis Robinson Tuesday 20 December 2022 • 3 min read

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Tasting articles

WA – Australian refinement, longevity and good wine canned

The far south-western tip of Australia makes up in quality what it lacks in quantity. Cabernet, then Chardonnay, made the...

Virginia Willcock, Vasse Felix chief winemaker

Wines of the week

Vasse Felix, Classic Semillon/Sauvignon Blanc 2021 Margaret River

Not just one but two stunningly well-made dry whites, one a whippersnapper, the other rather majestically mature. Vasse Felix from...

Max on Oz

Lockdown Down Under

Max describes how Australia has become a nation divided by the pandemic and its effects. Virginia and Cath Willcock live...

Tasting articles

All the Tom Cullitys

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

Cullen, Red Moon Mangan Vineyard Malbec/Petit Verdot 2018 Margaret River

From AU$28, €20, $29, NZ$41.99, £21.60 Find this wine Cullen Wines are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, half a...

Tasting articles

Cullen – a toast to mum and dad

A Western Australia sustainability hero celebrates a half-century. Unable to travel from Australia – there are far worse places to...

Frankland Estate, Western Australia from the air

Wines of the week

Frankland Estate Riesling 2019 and Shiraz 2017 Frankland River

A brilliant pair of Western Australians. See also this news of Australian wine. Riesling from AU$25, £18.95, $27.99, 3,090 roubles...

Bottles for Cape Mentelle's 50th anniversary

Tasting articles

A trip down memory lane with Cape Mentelle

An unusually deep vertical of an Australian classic. I was last in Margaret River in 2017 for the 50th anniversary...

Free for all

WWC20 – Cullen, Margaret River

The first entry for our 2020 summer wine writing competition is from Mike Bartlett, 'a 53-year-old Londoner, passionate amateur wine...

Tasting articles

Western Australia – a frustrating tasting

Good wines but too many constraints. Sponsored on this occasion by Australian construction company Built and held in the security-conscious...

Swinney Mourvedre bush vines in Frankland River, Western Australia

Tasting articles

Some stars of Western Australia

Hugely enjoyable tastings with the owners and/or winemakers of Cloudburst, Corymbia, Cullen and Swinney. One long-established name that has evolved...