The sea mists gathers across the picturesque lake Alexandrina in Langhorne Creek in the morning, clearing to spread a comforting breeze over the vineyards ensuring perfect growing conditions for this Verdelho. This is tropical to the core with not...

The best way to enjoy some fresh oysters or prawns is to match them with a wine like this. Crowd pleasing combinations of seafood and Semillon blends is the key to enjoying the warmer weather and this one from Langhorne Creek really hits the spot....

When we see a reserve release Chardonnay from Sandalford we get excited because we have a soft spot for Margaret River Chardonnay in all its guises. This is top-notch stuff, eschewing outdated Chardonnay practices for less alcohol, less oak and an...

The Hay Shed Hill brand is synonmous with premium Margaret River wine and this Margaret River Chardonnay pushes all the right buttons. Forget what you know about blousy and fat Chardonnays of yesteryear, this is all about restraint and shows how f...

It’s become the trademark blend of the Margaret River and for good reason as Sem and Sav have bonded harmoniously in the region to create a crowd-pleasing wine that’s perfect for summer days and seafood. Winemaker Michael Kerrigan knows how to mak...

The Zonte’s crew are a bunch of vinous renegades on a mission to make bloody good booze. They don’t take life very seriously but they are very serious about the quality of their wines. The names of the wines seem to get longer with each release an...

Here’s a Riesling you might just find as an antidote to all the Sauvignon Blanc that Marlborough produces. It’s good to see New Zealand producers like Framingham produce other aromatic whites in their stable and this Riesling is very special indee...

How often do we just step back and allow ourselves the freedom to escape the everyday and the ordinary? For a group of Margaret River winemakers passion drove them to make wines that showed their love of the craft and showed off select vineyards a...

A positively frisky wine this one from the plain chilly 2011 vintage (particularly so in the Adelaide Hills). Despite the cool temps this manages to balance out such frisky acidity with some nice tropical juiciness to make for a zingy but still ap...

It’s hard with so much good Chardonnay on the market to say something unique about this brilliant white from near the Margaret River. What we can tell you is that it’s a brilliant price for a classic taste of modern Oz Chardonnay and it will keep ...

The Lawsons Hill wines are now a quintessential part of the Marlborough winemaking firmament. The fruit is sourced from vineyards in the cool Wairau Valley and show a dedication to crafting wines of varietal charm. This is a fuller example of Char...

Looking for freshness? This wine has it in spades, the cool year delivering a Sauvignon Blanc that might say McLaren Vale on the label but is so snappy and dry that it could have come from the cool heights of the Adelaide Hills. The perfect Sauv B...

The Lawsons philosophy is to make wines of great character and varietal expression and you can see that in this ridiculously good Riesling. Load up with oysters before you crack one of these beauties as it will undoubtedly make your day. You’ll e...

From the outside, the Great Southern doesn't look like necessary prime Riesling territory. It's flat-ish for a start (except for Mt Barker/the Porongorup range) and has a warm and dry summer. What makes it special is the cool nights and the rocky ...

Super dry Riesling this one. Bone dry. Dry enough that suddenly you want to drink more of it just to keep hydrated. What is so attractive about this wine though is that it's not hard - just refreshing. Like slightly acidic rainwater (though much m...

Abundance. That's the word to use with a wine like this, a Pinot Gris with richness and texture built by picking the grapes ripe and then leaving a little grape sugar for balance. If you're looking for a wine of texture look no further.

It's time to get wine nerd for a second. Don't worry it won't be hard, just bear with me for a second. There is an important number to be looked at when tasting this wine. It's called the 'TA' and stands for Total Acidity which is, unsurprisingly,...

Who put's Viognier and Semillon together? Geoff Hardy does that's who, making a wine that offers the citrussy line of Semillon fleshed out with the richness and viscosity of Viognier. It's sort of like a ying/ying blend actually, a heady mix that ...

2011 was a challenging sort of vintage in the Adelaide Hills, a positively frosty one in the scheme of things and a year that produced super cool, super crisp wines. in this case it has made for a lovely grassy sort of wine, a snappy and super dr...

The Hardy’s Oomoo wines are an iconic range from South Australia that draw on vineyards in the Adelaide Hills district to make this wine. This bracingly fresh Sauvignon Blanc sums up why this variety is still so popular for white wine drinkers wit...