Think Aussie shiraz and the cliché is of big, bold, in yer face wines – you might even say unreconstructedly macho. We’d never suggest...
Hidden deep in the normally peaceful Yarra Valley, maverick winemakers at Yering Station have been secretly building what the military ...
The Cheshire market town of Macclesfield is famous for silk, Hovis, John Mayall and for having streets lined with treacle. So we were...
Let’s paint a picture. Your boss has been a jerk all week. It’s been a long Friday. It was hot all day but you were stuck at work unable...
You are what you eat, so the saying goes. And this is manifestly true in Stanton and Killeen’s achingly delicious Rutherglen Muscat. What does the wine ‘eat’?...
They say it took 26 million years to make South Australia's Limestone Coast. Fortunately for us it takes only about a 26 Millionth of that time...
Well. When we got into the business of selling wine, little did we imagine that we would become the go-to business for Whippet lovers nationwide. But, for obvious reasons, Longview winery’s Whippet Sauvignon Blanc...
South and East of Adelaide down the coast of South Australia lie the regions of Langhorne Creek and Limestone Coast, where the...
Ben Glaetzer, the winemaker behind this bright, perfumed and sensuous red, is a talented little so-and-so...
Only a fifth of the wineries in James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion 2012 were awarded five stars. Last year, James employed a novel judging criteria, in which he made producers perform “I’m a little tea pot”...
History is scattered with memorable “Larrys”: there’s Lawrence of Arabia, DH Lawrence, Laurence Olivier...
Benevolent King Bob led Australian troops (i.e. Chardonnay) to a glorious victory...
It’s not worth saying wines like this are like a very full bodied version of something you might get from Southern France. Only in the searing...
Australian wine critic Jane Faulkner said of this wine, “I love everything about this Fiano – its enticing slippery texture, hint of white florals including honeysuckle...
Braveheart taught us that Wallace was a pintsized, foulmouthed Australian with limited skills as a face painter. Although Ben Glaetzer’s ...
It’s easy to split the wine world into ‘old’ and ‘new’, and not without good reason, but as ever, things turn out to be not as simple...
According to winemaker Ben Glaetzer, in films, the "director's cut" is regarded as the definitive version, subject to no compromises. Although...
