While the grapes grown in Australia were predominantly French in origin, an influx of Italian and Spanish varietals have made their mark across the country. Here in Australia, over 100 grape varieties ...

Between 1990 and 2004 the volume of Aussie wine exported to the US exploded, from around 550,000 annual cases to a whopping 20 million, led by “critter” wine brand Yellow Tail and its many cheap and ...

Mark Oldman loves Australia. He’d better — the New York-based wine expert is married to an Australian, and regularly visits the country for both personal and viticultural reasons. Plus, he says, ...

Many wine drinkers still find it difficult to think beyond the ripe, tropical style of Australian chardonnay that was big in the 1990s. If that’s you, drop the pineapple-chunks-and-buttery-toast label ...

Making the case for great Australian wine lately has been a bit like hanging hopes on a Warriors playoff berth. To sing the praises of antipodean Chardonnay from my sunny California desk? I mean, that ...

As Australia battles various fires throughout the continent with great devastation to its nature and wildlife, as well as human loss, it has become difficult to truly assess the total devastation.

Just about all of the words in our native tongue sound deliciously mysterious and foreign when they are spoken by an inhabitant of that faraway land known as Australia, but some of their wine words ...

A few years ago, we began writing that inexpensive Chardonnay and Shiraz from Down Under had gone to hell. We said that Australian winemakers seemed to be in a race to the bottom of the price point; ...

The creation of the Australian Wine Future Fund is in response to 2024’s One Grape & Wine Sector Plan, which identified the urgent need to unlock additional investment for innovation while the ...

A local’s guide to Tasmania, with tips on where to sleep, eat and surf. By Doosie Morris Despite its thirst for Australian wine, China had taxed the imports in 2020 over a dispute about Covid-19. By ...