Bekkers Wine co-founder Emmanuelle Bekkers has been knighted by the French government, appointed a Chevalier of the Ordre National du Mérite Agricole for her contribution to French wine and to ties between the French and Australian wine communities.

A Tasmanian first — Pooley's 2024 Syrah takes Best Wine of Show at the Sydney Royal, at a 2026 show also marked by the death of guest judge Matthew Jukes.

Two versions of the same 2023 Cabernet, the two biggest red awards in the country, one year. Xanadu Reserve Cabernet wins Halliday's 2027 Red Wine of the Year award.

Matthew Jukes, the British wine writer who loved Australia and was loved right back, has died at 58. Campbell Mattinson pays tribute.

Haselgrove Wines has named Michael Fragos as chief executive and chief winemaker, ending Christophe Forel's 11-year run at the helm.

The headline number hides one of the more revealing tables in Wine Australia's June report. Broken out by price, the export book isn't declining evenly — it's pulling apart at both ends.

The headline number is the sub-600-million-litre milestone, but the figure that should worry premium producers is the US — down 27 per cent, with weakness running right through the range.

A modernised embossed 'P', refreshed typography, and a three-year phased rollout — Penfolds changes its bottle for the first time in years, starting with the 2026 Collection.

A cool, restrained vintage, the same 14.5% alcohol as ever — Penfolds Grange 2022 extends an 18-year run that warm years and cool years alike can't break.

The 2025 Bulman wines are out – two grenaches, two vineyards, and one of the year's hottest releases. Deservedly so.

No outside hire, no reset — just Yangarra's own people stepping up. After Peter Fraser's death, the estate has promoted Guillaume Camougrand, Shelley Torresan and Cliff Wickman to carry his Grenache-focused philosophy forward.

The vineyard Maurice O'Shea planted in 1946, by candlelight, with no electricity — and the Mount Pleasant Semillon that stopped me at my desk, decades later.

The Australian Women in Wine Symposium will be held in Melbourne in September. The theme of this year’s Symposium is Rising Together – Shaping What Comes Next.

A major Bordeaux producer expands into McLaren Vale: Le Pin's owner acquires parcels of the historic Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard.

Big win for Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon – at the Canberra.

A decade of Tasmanian whisky. The 2026 festival runs 1–9 August, capped by the Aon Showcase in Hobart – every distillery on the island, pouring side by side for one afternoon.

Pinnacle Drinks is cutting wine production by 80% and selling Oakridge — a stark sign of how far Australia's big wine businesses have fallen.

Marta Vidal has created history by becoming the first ever woman president of Spain’s Cava DO.

Four Winds vineyard in Canberra and the Hyatt Regency in Sydney – along with Goterra – are using food waste to fertilise a vineyard, and then return the resultant wine to the restaurant. The result, Australia's first ‘circular wine’, is called The Circular Vintage Shiraz 2025.

Sevenhill Cellars in the Clare Valley has appointed Ben Marx as its chief winemaker.