Food & wine reviews
Learn the language of Chardonnay, and you’re well on the way to understanding more about many other wine varieties and styles.
Food & wine reviews
If any wine variety needs its own day of celebration, Viognier is it – even if it’s simply so people can learn to pronounce it. This Friday, you can thank Yalumba for staying the course with a grape that challenges many drinkers but is shining a light on a new era in the Barossa.
The wines of Kangaroo Island have long been part of the island’s visitor to-do list. But one variety might just be raising the bar and making a regional signature to be reckoned with, well beyond the tourism experience.
Australia’s wine exports plummeted by 30 per cent or $860 million in 2021, as the first full year of China’s crippling tariffs on bottled Australian wine resulted in its previously top market falling to 14th place.
It loves our warm summers as much as we do. It can lend its hand to just about every wine style imaginable. It grows just about anywhere. No wonder Fiano has become the new variety of choice.
Wine baron Warren Randall has strengthened his hold on McLaren Vale with the purchase of the Penny’s Hill brand as the first gambit in a strategic move away from the Chinese market he previously embraced so enthusiastically.
A Tasmanian pinot noir has taken out the top trophy and Western Australia’s Margaret River was the most successful region at today’s Royal Adelaide Wine Show – an event usually dominated by South Australian reds.
In a bold move that will upset many a purist, one Coonawarra winemaker has gone all out to create a red wine with the most Australian personality possible.
A family-run Coonawarra winery is celebrating a major milestone in 2021, having survived the boom and bust cycles that define the industry.
Wine and art express landscape in different ways – or do they? Winemaker and artist Geoff Weaver lost a lifetime of artistic expression in the 2019 bushfires but it hasn’t dampened his connection with the Adelaide Hills, nor his passion for painting.
