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  • Australia’s Best Textural Riesling

    Although there is a nagging, seemingly unshakeable, collective memory that riesling is often sweet, the benchmark Australian rieslings have always been dry – often aridly so. Indeed, for a certain type of Australian wine drinker, the presence of any perceptible sweetness in a riesling immediately rules it out of bounds. But the riesling landscape has become somewhat richer in the last decade or so, with a wealth of wines emerging that combine electric acidity with balancing dollops of natural grape sugar. It’s a very exciting category – one that produces wines that are seductive in their youth, yet can age astonishingly well, as well as being perfectly suited to pairing with an array of different cuisines. Five years on from our inaugural Deep Dive into this topic, we thought it was high time to revisit this delicious category …

  • Australia’s Best Barbera

    The northern Italian grape variety barbera has been a resident of this country since the 1960s, arriving here via a detour in California. A serious attempt to get some traction in the 1970s by a fabled Italian winemaker didn’t quite get the kettle boiling, but some steady growth at the end of the century – followed by a little bit of decline – has seen the grape chip out its own niche in the local wine landscape. While its home is the relatively cool region of Piedmont, its ability to thrive and retain acidity in hotter areas makes it a fine prospect for Australia’s wide range of climatic conditions. With makers continuing to explore a wide range of possibilities for this variety, we thought that a second Deep Dive into the subject was in order.

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  • Fifth Annual Vineyard of the Year Awards Winners

    The Vineyard of the Year Awards in 2019 in order to place vineyards and griowers across the nation at the heart of the Australian wine story – and at the heart of the Australian wine community. We wanted to reconnect the whole idea of wine to the place it comes from and the manner in which the grapes are grown. Five years on, and the mission of the Vineyard of the Year Awards remains the same. Read on to discover the New Vineyard of the Year; Old Vineyard of the Year; Innovative Vineyard of the Year, dubbed ‘The Groundbreaker’; and Vineyard of the Year.

  • 19th Annual Young Gun of Wine Awards Winners

    Exciting new projects, vibrant and daring wines, thoughtful packaging and marketing, detailed viticulture, and a quiet achiever of the Australian wine community – all of these have been recognised with trophies at the 2025 Young Gun of Wine Awards.

  • Australia’s Best Young Wine Labels & Winemakers in 2025

    Since 2007, Young Gun of Wine has searched the length and breadth of Australia looking for the best emerging winemaking talent – the young winemakers who breathe fresh life into this ancient craft. Whether they’re starting their own labels to express their unique philosophies, or reinvigorating existing wine brands with exciting new interpretations of tradition, our Top 50 winemakers for 2025 represent the future of Australian wine – and the future’s bright.

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“If we went back 10 years, the relationship between sugar and acidity would be a lot more obvious – all over the shop. There’d be sugar here, acid there, and things would not be anywhere near as in balance as a lot of the wines we saw today.”

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