Virginia Willcock has created a truly beautiful chardonnay.

Australia's best value wines in 2025. All the wines on Mattinson’s Best Value Australian Wine List are available for under $25, preferably closer to $15 (or under).

Thistledown’s The Charming Man Grenache 2024 is one of the wines of the year. It’s grenache for the true believers. You don’t just drink this, you come home to it.

Penfolds Grange and La Chapelle, two of the world's most famous shiraz-based wines, have had a wine baby. It's called Grange La Chapelle 2021.

New owners, new winemaker, and all the signs are good at Stonier on the Mornington Peninsula.

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

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

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.

The 2024 edition of Tahbilk's famous Marsanne is an excellent release. It's a $22 'classic', worthy of the cellar. The question is: does anyone care?

The new team – and vineyard sources – behind TarraWarra Estate put this important Yarra Valley winery in an exciting position.

Chatto Isle Pinot Noir 2023 is up with the best of Australian pinot.

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

There are a lot of famous wines out of France from the 1982 vintage but you’d be hard-pressed to find a wine from this vintage as fresh as Piper Heidsieck’s Hors-Serie Champagne 1982.

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.

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.

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.

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. Indeed it may even be an Australian classic in the making.

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.

Australia's most expensive (table) wine in 2024 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.

The 2025 edition of the Halliday Wine Companion is my second (and last) as its chief editor. Over two years, I've had four main decisions to make. This is how I used them.

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

The price may not be right for most of us. But Penfolds has released a pretty special wine with its new Bin 180 Cabernet Shiraz 2021 Commemorative release.

he 2020 Penfolds Grange Shiraz is “not a show pony, and is not a wall of sound, but it's Grange being Grange, authoritative, settled, the ants served crushed, the fruit deep”. This and more on the 2024 Penfolds Collection.

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.

Penfolds Grange Shiraz 2020 review and a bonus mini vertical tasting of 1999, 2009 and 2019 Penfolds Grange.

The centre cannot hold. And so, L’Anglore Chemin de la Brune 2021. Review and context of this emblematic natural wine of the Rhone.

One weekday afternoon I sat down with Pat Carmody, and he told me this story. This article won an award. It’s the story of the Craiglee winery.

I had a health scare recently. I was so concerned that I called a doctor, out of hours, to my house, late at night. The doctor who came noticed the wine bottles everywhere.

Thymiopoulos Young Vines Xinomavro 2021 is authentic Greek wine, on a platter.

This is the story of Sierra Reed, winemaker, presented in full for the first time. I had a feeling that Sierra’s story needed to be told, but I had little idea what was in store. This is more than a simple wine story.

I started working at Halliday Magazine in 2011. I’ve had a suite of different roles over the years, from editor of the magazine to editor of the book. The end has come.

Sierra Reed, aka Reed Wines, is one of Australia’s most interesting wine producers, and by interesting I mean that she has the ability to convey something bigger than mere flavours.

We live in the golden age of Australian grenache. This is the moment its fortunes turned.

This is the unofficial launch of CampbellMattinson.com as an online wine magazine. This website will be about the story of wine, and the stories of wine.

James Halliday has announced his retirement from all wine writing, so ending a magnificent and unrivalled career of wine communication.

A visit to Taminick Cellars, near Glenrowan n north-east Victoria, in photo form.

If James Halliday hadn’t called me personally, I wouldn’t have taken on the Halliday chief editor role.

New owners, new winemaker, and all the signs are good at Stonier on the Mornington Peninsula.