A white wine topped Australia's most collected list for 2024, for the first time — Leeuwin Estate Art Series Chardonnay leads Wineark's cellar data.

The journey of Mount Langi Ghiran’s Langi Shiraz is a journey for the ages.

Photo essay of a trip to the Tahbilk winery, and to the nearby Nagambie township itself.

Penfolds Grange and La Chapelle, two of the world's most famous shiraz-based wines, have made a controversial super-blend named Grange La Chapelle. The Hill of Hermitage and various South Australian vineyards combine here to create a wine like no other.

New life has been breathed into the Stonier winery on the Mornington Peninsula.

Mattinson talks Maxwell Grenache Blanc 2024. Because it’s very good.

Suckfizzle Chardonnay 2023 is a wonderful wine.

Thymiopoulos Young Vines Xinomavro 2021 is an authentic Greek wine at an excellent price.

Gentle Folk Onkaparinga Sangiovese 2023 is a truly beautiful wine.

James Halliday has retired as a wine critic.

I like to say that Cape Mentelle saved my life. It was 1993, I was staying at a backpacker hostel in the Margaret River township, and after hiring a bike on a hot December day I’d then drastically over-estimated both my cycling fitness, and my water requirements.

A wine that jumped out at me at the Cape Mentelle International Cabernet tasting last week was Devil’s Lair Cabernet Sauvignon 2021.

Re-visiting Cullen’s Diana Madeline Cabernet Sauvignon 2021.

There's a new winemaking breeze at Margaret River's Voyager Estate, and its name is Tim Shand.

Interesting encounter with the Te Mata Estate Coleraine 2021.

Pictures of the Black Springs vineyard near Beechworth, just after it was first planted.

The complete Vasse Felix Tom Cullity vertical, 2013 to 2022, reviewed and scored by Campbell Mattinson — and the case for a Cabernet whose magic is its lightness.

If there’s a producer that’s really jumped out at me in recent times it’s J&S Fielke out of the Adelaide Hills.

There are a lot of famous wines out of France from the 1982 vintage but this Piper Heidsieck Hors-Serie has taken time in its stride so effortlessly that you’d be hard-pressed to find another 1982 vintage wine in such spritely good condition.

An assyrtiko from the Greek island of Santorini made me realise the depths to which grape varieties run.