Living dangerously: NZ’s Top Pinot Noirs of 2025
GOLD-MINING, bungee jumping, jet boating, skiing and hiking aren’t the usual hallmarks of a great wine-growing region. Let alone one […]
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Not-so Wild West: Australia’s Top Chardonnays of 2025
Check out my new post! One region towers over all others when it comes to Australian chardonnay. Find out which and why in our list of Australia’s Top Chardonnays of 2025.
Butter up: New Zealand’s top Chardonnays of 2025
A JOURNALIST, a Burgundian winemaker, an educator and a winery equipment supplier walk into a bar… Unfortunately, this real-life encounter
Hunter’s Trophy: Australia’s Top Semillons of 2025
We rank the 300+ semillons exhibited at wine shows last year and rank the top 20.
All the Raj: Top Chenin Blancs of 2025
BALMY autumn temperatures lingering into May are often described as an “Indian summer”. So what better wine to drink on
WA’s Cygnet-ture Blend: Top Semillon, Sauvignon Blancs of 2025
Australia’s Best Semillon Sauvignon Blanc blends of 2025
Sweet As: NZ’s Top Rieslings of 2025
The Seventies are back, baby. Not so much flares and paisley, perhaps – although your correspondent has noticed a recent
Not-So Terrible Twin: New Zealand’s Top Pinot Gris of 2025
If pinot noir is the highly strung, thin-skinned, fickle mistress of grapes – its mutant sister probably shouldn’t be much
Pinot’s Two Shades of Grey: Australia’s top Pinot Gris/Grigio of 2025
To Gris or not to Gris…..is probably not the question that vexed Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Although it could have. The grape
Finding New Ways to Win: Australia’s top Sauvignon Blancs of 2025
If you can’t beat ‘em – stick ‘em in oak. At least that seems to be the approach for some