I'm not sure that I've ever seen anything quite like the new Elanto vineyard on the Mornington Pensinula. This is wine ambition written in a mass of close-planted vines. Elanto Vineyard's first wines, too – more importantly – put this new Mornington Peninsula producer on the map.

Tobias Ansted and Simon Osicka take cabernet sauvignon off an important Bendigo vineyard and give it all the love and respect that it deserves. The end result is a beautiful wine.

Drinking the wines of Piedmont producer Scarpa is a philosophical exercise.

When the Giant Steps winery bought the Bastard Hill vineyard, it bought something special. The release of the 2023 Bastard Hill wines, the first under the Giant Steps name, are a moment in Australian wine history that has been 40 years in the making.

Oakridge 864 Funder & Diamond Chardonnay 2022 is a rockstar chardonnay. Arguably, it’s an Australian classic in the making.

Penfolds Bin 180 Cabernet Shiraz 2021 is a special wine.

A wine from Mudgee has won Best Grenache at the 2024 Sydney Royal Wine Show Awards. That's not a result anyone saw coming, you'd reckon, but it's pretty exciting for the Mudgee wine region.

Champagne house Mumm – operating here under the name Mumm Central Otago – has released an AU $80 pinot noir from New Zealand’s most famous pinot noir region.

The 2025 edition of the Halliday Wine Companion is the first edition since James Halliday announced his retirement, and the last with Campbell Mattinson as its chief editor.

Sometimes when I swirl a glass of Brokenwood Graveyard Vineyard Shiraz it feels as though I’m not just swirling a wine; I’m swirling a universe.

This is an article from the archives on winemaker Travis Clydesdale in 2013, when he was the head winemaker at Mitchelton. He is now at Devil’s Lair.

Eperosa Magnolia 1896 Shiraz 2022 is an outstanding wine; it’s the vanguard of Barossa Valley Shiraz in peak form.

Australia's most expensive (table) wine in 2025 is a newcomer to the field of luxury wine offerings, though it’s also a traditional red, with history, by the most traditional of Australian wine producers.

I could throw a blanket over many of them but these are my personal Top 5 of the 2024 Penfolds Collection.

The wines themselves are in great shape, more consistently excellent than ever, but the story of Penfolds has become about head office, about luxury for luxury’s sake, and about wine scores. The score is a story, for sure, but it’s everyone’s story and because it is, it eventually wears thin.

Callum Powell’s Agricola Vintners plants a clear, firm, historically important stake with the release of its 2023 red wines. This is Barossa Shiraz and the Barossa Valley, done proud.

Personal, independent review of Etsu Double Yuzu Gin. Full bottle consumed (over time); this review is not from a single tasting.

When wine expert Campbell Mattinson was the chief editor of Halliday Wine Companion, he inducted Prue Henschke as the first inductee into the Halliday Hall of Fame.

A review of one of the world’s most famous natural wines, L’Anglore Chemin de la Brune 2021. By review I mean, an impression, and a context.