The new team – and vineyard sources – behind TarraWarra Estate, lead by Sarah Fagan, have this important Yarra Valley winery in the best wine shape it's been in years.

The 2016 House of Arras releases are beautiful, and so too is the story of Ed Carr and his commitment to this brand's excellence.

Fiona MacDonald was a long time, and much loved, publicist for Henschke. She died today after a long battle with MND.

Southern Light Vineyards and most especially its wines under the Ghost Gum label – from the highest vineyard at Main Ridge on the Mornington Peninsula – are wines you need to know about.

Crittenden’s Cri de Coeur Savagnin Sous Voile is something special.

I drank this wine on a Wednesday night and it made the life ahead seem brighter, not to mention, greater.

There’s a need in wine, both in Australia and elsewhere, for fresh, unique images to be taken, recorded, crafted and published. Here's a start.

L.A.S Marea Vermentino 2022 is one of the most unusual wines you could ever hope to encounter. The grapes were, literally, plunged into the ocean, prior to their fermentation.

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.