Global warming? Go ask the birds

Philip White ponders the meaning of 2018: panic in the avian world, served with less wine of more flavour and lower alcohols.

2018 Shiraz is on … with a $50m sweetener

Philip White reports on politics and money as terroir, and the widening gap between good fruit and everything else.

Ironheart Shiraz - safe and sound and ripening, under the net. Photo: Philip White

Vintage is looking pretty good so far

Whitey takes a measured gaze across vintage 2018, which seems to be progressing reasonably well …

Vintage outlook mixed after fickle spring weather

A look around South Australia’s wine regions finds that November rains are proving a blessing and a curse for the state’s grape growers ahead of the 2018 vintage.