ODDBINS EXCLUSIVE. It’s hard sometimes, in this life, to maintain a sense of place, when we have our furniture from Scandinavia, our pears from Kenya and our sitcoms from America...
You are what you eat, so the saying goes. And this is manifestly true in Stanton and Killeen’s achingly delicious Rutherglen Muscat. What does the wine ‘eat’?...
Wairarapa, heard when spoken, may sound like reference to the steel netting that many bottles of Spanish red come, well...
Confused you say? South African wine named after a French alpine mountaineering and skiing resort and made in the Italian 'ripasso' style?
They say it took 26 million years to make South Australia's Limestone Coast. Fortunately for us it takes only about a 26 Millionth of that time...
South and East of Adelaide down the coast of South Australia lie the regions of Langhorne Creek and Limestone Coast, where the...
Well. When we got into the business of selling wine, little did we imagine that we would become the go-to business for Whippet lovers nationwide. But, for obvious reasons, Longview winery’s Whippet Sauvignon Blanc...
Ben Glaetzer, the winemaker behind this bright, perfumed and sensuous red, is a talented little so-and-so...
Benevolent King Bob led Australian troops (i.e. Chardonnay) to a glorious victory...
Almost every profession has a patron saint. Some are just plain weird: Adrian of Nicomedia (arms dealers), Barbara (firework makers)...
Viña Santa Carolina cemented its position as a top winery when it won gold at the Exposition Universelle de France in 1889. It is a well-known...
For too long the initials PC have meant personal computer. A machine that has tormented you, frustrated you, chained you to a...
Carménère is the forgotten one of the six Bordeaux grape varieties. But like an incredibly athletic and intrepid mole it has popped its head....
The story of Carignan, like that of Malbec, is that of a humble country grape, widely exploited but little appreciated at home...
The folk at Santa Carolina hold dear the concept of “Herencia Viva”. This translates roughly as “living legacy” and means that they always consider the past...
Pinot Noir, as any fan of Sideways will tell you, is a tricky and temperamental grape – difficult and delicate both ...
Jansz is like a Champagne house in a parallel universe, which enjoys the same cool, temperate weather, but where everyone is laid back in that...
It’s not worth saying wines like this are like a very full bodied version of something you might get from Southern France. Only in the searing...
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell told us that the “world is just a great big onion”. They were wrong on two counts. Firstly, the world isn’t
Australian wine critic Jane Faulkner said of this wine, “I love everything about this Fiano – its enticing slippery texture, hint of white florals including honeysuckle...
