We are proud to announce The Sixth Great New Zealand Pinot Noir Classification to highlight the importance of New Zealand’s finest pinots. The Great New Zealand Pinot Noir Classification 2013 New in 2013 In 2013, The Great New Zealand Pinot Noir Classification highlights 120 estates, representing the top quarter of New Zealand’s 484 pinot noir […]
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It is difficult to overstate the significance of the 2010 vintage in the flow of the grand history of Penfolds. Late last year I was privileged to a very rare sneak preview of this vintage at Penfolds’ Rewards of Patience tastings. In assessing almost every vintage of its top red wines spanning seven decades, one […]
readAfter more than 1200 wines and two years, the 100th edition of Wine Taste Weekly represents an opportune time to honour those estates that have performed at the very highest level. Announcing the inaugural Wine Taste Weekly Hall of Honour.
readHow many Queensland wineries could you name? Most locals might have difficulty listing more than a handful. It may come as a surprise that the sunshine state is now home to no less than 177 wineries.
readTrevor Mast, longstanding winemaker at Mount Langi Ghiran and legend of the Victorian wine industry in Australia passed away last night, following a five year battle with younger onset Alzheimer’s.
readWould sparkling wine be as popular without the pop?
readThe 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.
readWhat makes a bottle worth such a figure? What does it really cost to make? If you set out to create the most expensive bottle in the country, what is the most you could pay for raw materials?
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