Why semillon sauvignon blanc? Why blend grapes at all, anyway? Single varietal wines are all the rage at the moment, and there’s no shortage of great drinks on the shelves parading just one grape on the label.
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If there’s one NSW wine region that you must visit in your life, it is theLower Hunter Valley.
readVineyards in South Australia’s world-famous Coonawarra region are under threat from a proposal to build a highway bypass around the nearby town of Penola.
readDr Bailey Carrodus, founder, owner and winemaker of the historic Yarra Yering winery in Victoria’s Yarra Valley, has passed away.
readUltra-premium Barossa Valley winery Torbreck has been reacquired by winemaker David Powell.
readThe 2008 vintage in some part of Australia has hit the headlines as a “bastard of a year”. Mother nature reached deep into her bag of nasty tricks, pulling out record-smashing heat, frost, snow, drought, floods, bushfires, and for some regions, the earliest harvest in history.
readA record-breaking heatwave has hit South Australia mid-vintage, sending grape ripeness soaring and winemakers scrambling.
readHundreds of thousands of litres of wine were lost and a man was seriously injured when a fermenting tower collapsed at a McLaren Vale winery yesterday.
read2007 is quickly shaping up as the year of natural disasters for winemakers down under. Drought, frosts, bushfires, unseasonal rain and even locusts have wrought havoc across Australian vineyards. Last weekend the Hunter Valley was hit by the most significant floods it has seen in more than 35 years.
readWhy does it seem that Sauvignon Blanc is a four-letter word in the Australian wine trade at the moment?
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