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The race is on to create the most expensive wine in Australia.
readWhile exploring France, Steve Webber and Leanne De Bortoli discovered that fine wine was made by understanding the land. “We realised we didn’t have an amazing understanding of what fine wine was…That was a revolution! We did a lot of soul searching in what fine wine was and what the Yarra could do.”
readAlice Springs may seem an unlikely place to produce one of Australia’s more important red winemakers. But if the Red Centre hadn’t been home to Sue Hodder, she would likely have never ended up in Coonawarra. And she would certainly have never had the spirit to transform the most fabled and historic estate of Australia’s other red centre, as Chief Winemaker at Wynns Coonawarra Estate.
readThis is quintessential party fizz for the masses. I took more than a dozen bottles of Aussie bubbles and champagne to a Christmas party on Sunday afternoon and the cheapest bottle in the ice bucket was the first to be emptied! Little wonder, with such a refreshing froth of strawberry and red cherry fruit and […]
readWine Taste highlights come to you from all manner of places, and this one was discovered over wood-fired pizzas on a sunny Sunday afternoon in McLaren Vale. It’s refreshingly medium-bodied, stylishly crafted and deliciously priced. It tastes like young shiraz in all of its white pepper, spice, blackberry and black plum glory, with an attractively […]
readTim Adams Gris frequents that rare place where textural structure, zesty zing and fleshy lusciousness co-exist, creating a wine of immense food-pairing versatility and crowd-pleasing appeal. It’s fresh and crunchy, beautifully textured and defined by excellent fruit expression of nashi pear, grapefruit, lemon blossom and fleshy white nectarine, finishing with a tweak of juicy sweetness. […]
readBenchmark Paulett Riesling from a standout vintage! Beautifully defined fruit concentration melds with scintillating acidity and fragrant lime blossom perfume, built around a core of crunchy granny smith apples and kaffir lime spice. A high-tensile core of acidity and impressive fruit poise and persistence make it sensational now, and charge it with the stamina to […]
readFrom the uppermost reaches of Skillogalee’s estate at a high point of the Clare Valley, this is a pristine riesling that unites approachability and great cellaring potential. A stunning bouquet captures the taut zestiness of lime and lemon, the freshness of granny smith apples and the subtle, generous exoticism of guava and fig. The palate […]
readOne of the most southerly vineyards in mainland Australia, Drumborg delivers a particularly chiselled and honed style of chardonnay, charged with high-tensile acidity. The cool 2011 vintage is leaner and tighter than ever, yet carries itself with considerable confidence and persistence, promising a long future. An impressive marriage of struck flint with taut lemon and […]
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