The 5th Annual Vineyard of the Year Awards list of Australia’s top winegrowers has just landed landed. The Vineyard of the Year Awards were created in 2020 to advance the regional identity of Australian wine and promote leading edge sustainability and innovation in winegrowing.
The southern Italian grape fiano has had a relatively meteoric rise in Australia. We gathered every Australian varietal fiano we could find and set our expert panel the task of finding the wines that compelled the most. All wines were tasted blind.
With wine tasting, much thought is put into getting all the elements right: the serving temperature of wine, the type of wine glass used, whether to decant a wine before serving. And when it comes to dining, food and wine pairing is an occupation all to itself. But have you ever considered the effect water has on the palate? We gathered together some leading winemakers and sommeliers to test how different types of water affect our palate.
With summer unfurling before us, it’s an apt time to cast our eyes across the Australian pink wine landscape. And when we say pink, the Pantone swatch book of rosé veers from the pale and coppery to the distinctly ruddy, and from a range of varieties that could include… well, anything. We gathered every Australian rosé that we could find and set our expert panel the task of finding the wines that compelled the most.
The vermouth revolution is less than a decade old and growing pace, with an ever-increasing selection of local examples challenging perceptions of what vermouth can and should be. In our latest Deep Dive, we gathered a panel of industry specialists to see what makes this new wave of Australian vermouth just so very compelling.
Over the past three decades, the Aylward family has been perfecting their craft of growing pinot noir across two vineyard sites in the region. We catch up with Ocean Eight winemaker Mike Aylward to discuss this notoriously finicky grape and the artistry of making wines that capture a true sense of place.
Tempranillo is unarguably Spain’s most recognisable variety, forming the bedrock of that country’s most famous red wines. It is also a grape that has seen explosive global growth, with more tempranillo planted since 2000 than any other variety. In Australia, it has made a modest but meaningful mark, but the potential for the grape is exponentially bigger. Three years after our inaugural Deep Dive into Tempranillo, it’s an apt time to again cast our eyes across the landscape.
Swinney vineyard’s investment in bush vine mourvèdre has proven revelatory. Often relegated to a role player in blended wines, we caught up with winemaker Rob Mann to get an insight into making single varietal mourvèdre.
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