'Shiraz hits dry patch as wine drinkers opt for sweeter whites like moscato' 'Is the writing on the wall for Australian Shiraz?' 'Australia’s Most Famous Red Wine Is Having an Identity Crisis' If …
Last month, the Endeavour Group (owner of Dan Murphys, BWS, several wineries and lots of pubs) dropped off a huge set of retail wine industry insights for zero dollars. Nudda. …
The 35th floor of a Sydney hotel feels the right place to launch a new range of super cuvées. Peering down at Darling Harbour on a super Sydney day from …
Challenging. That's the word you see in vintage reports when a harvest was pretty tough. Usually, the 'challenging' reference is followed up with some sort of positive spin about how …
Coonawarra celebrates 130 years of winemaking this year. That's a handy innings for any wine region, let alone here in the colonies. 130 years is also long enough to get …
And we're back. After a month where life and other projects filled up every other waking hour, I've finally got a few quieter nights to devote to this website. It’s probably …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 11 wines that almost made the silver medal, Australian Wine and Drinks Review …
Welcome back. After almost three weeks drinking very little wine (but still preoccupied with deliciousness), I'm now back at the tasting desk and straight into a lineup of Champagne reviews that …
Are we at peak Pinot? Anecdotally, Pinot Noir is flying, with reports from producers (especially Victorians) that they can't make enough Pinot Noir (but Shiraz has slumped), a situation that has …
There's nothing more disheartening in the wine trade than a great masterclass with empty seats. And on Wednesday this week, there I was in a grand room at Sydney's Customs House, …
'Exhilarating Wines' was the name for yesterday's giant West Australian wine trade extravaganza, which saw 54 of the cream of WA's wineries land in Sydney for one day only. Exhilarating it …
New Zealand wine is booming. Besides a small dip in 2024 (when volumes went backwards by 12%), export volumes of Kiwi wines have increased by over 50% over the past …
