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Australia’s Best Grenache Blanc

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    Australia’s Best Grenache Blanc

    Grenache blanc is a recent arrival to Australia, but it has already generated serious interest from growers, winemakers, and, increasingly, wine consumers. A colour mutation of the better-known grenache variety, it thrives in much the same conditions that grenache does – making it a climate-apt variety that can generate fresh white wines in warmer parts of Australia. The wines themselves are compelling – the variety offers an interesting combination of fruity, spicy, floral and herbaceous notes, and it’s very malleable in the winery, responding to winemaker technique in a similar way to chardonnay – and often excellent value, too. With so much to love about this exciting new arrival, we thought it was time to take a Deep Dive …

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    Australia’s Best Whole-Bunch/Cab-Mac Reds

    The most exciting thing happening in Australian red wine right now is also the oldest trick in the fermentation book. Whole-bunch fermentation and carbonic maceration – techniques that predate every piece of modern winery equipment – are producing a new generation of reds that are crunchy, perfumed, energetic and impossible to put down. It’s been a long time coming. The seeds were sown in the reaction against the Parker era’s obsession with power and oak, and in the slow rehabilitation of techniques that Beaujolais Nouveau had turned into a global punchline. A generation on, what began as quiet experimentation in wineries around Australia has found its moment – riding a wave of consumers actively seeking lighter, fresher and more fruit-forward styles of red wine. But how do these techniques actually show up in the finished wine? And are they the destination, or merely part of the journey? We took a Deep Dive to find out …

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    Wine Australia Wants to Send You to the World’s Premier Wine Symposium

    Wine Australia has launched the Emerging Talent Bursary, which will give ten young wine professionals (age 35 or under) the opportunity to attend and participate in the Institute of Masters of Wine International Symposium 2027. Successful applicants will receive financial support to attend the Symposium, which will take place on 15–18 April 2027 in Adelaide, and is considered one of the world’s foremost forums for wine education and professional development. Applications are open now, and close this Friday (24 April 2026).

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    Australia’s Best Pinot Noir & Shiraz Blends

    While pinot noir and shiraz are not exactly polar opposites, the thought of blending the two varieties together may nonetheless seem shocking. It would certainly shock many in France, the ancestral home of both varieties, where there is little history of such a combination. However, in the 1940s and ’50s, one of Australia’s legendary winemakers, Maurice O’Shea, made arguably some of our greatest and most enduring wines by pairing these two varieties. As Australia’s wine lovers rediscover this vital history, makers from the staunchly traditional to the restlessly creative are exploring the possibilities inherent in this pairing – just the kind of situation that calls for a Deep Dive …

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    Australia’s Best Gamay

    Gamay – the sole red variety of Beaujolais – has had a slowish start in this country, but enthusiasm is rapidly growing. The potential for it to make engagingly distinctive wine is key, but the grape is also a lot less fickle than its more famous parent, pinot noir. Gamay’s flavours tend to be a bit fuller than pinot, with riper, more luscious forest berries and flashes of violets quite common. It’s a variety that holds acidity quite well (if picked at the right time), so it can be fresh, and it often has quite a bit of tannin, which is very apparent in the more serious and age-worthy bottlings. Like pinot noir, it can also be quite transparent in its reflection of terroir, with minerality often on show. With the Australian gamay landscape rapidly changing, we thought it an apt time to take another Deep Dive into Australian expressions of this joyous variety …

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    Eden Valley’s Best Riesling

    The Eden Valley is the birthplace of Australia’s own unique style of riesling – bone-dry and clean as a whistle. It’s also arguably the sole Australian cool-climate region to survive through the first half of the twentieth century, when brash fortified wines ruled the roost. Despite this historical significance, the Eden Valley’s riesling output – and often its reputation in the market – is eclipsed by its northern neighbour, the Clare Valley, home of a wildly popular regional style of riesling directly indebted to the Eden Valley’s pioneers. Where the Clare’s rieslings are often marked by the power and presence of their citrus flavours, Eden Valley rieslings offer subtlety and complexity, with high-toned floral aromas and a distinctive mineral edge. Is it time for Eden Valley’s rieslings to step out from the shadows? We took a Deep Dive to find out.

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    Australia’s Best Chenin Blanc

    Chenin blanc is the hero white variety of France’s Loire Valley, where it makes wines that range from vibrant and carefree sparkling numbers through bone-dry mineral powerhouse whites to lusciously sweet and practically immortal dessert wines. But the grape also excels outside of the France’s cool climate, being South Africa’s most important white variety – while also thriving in the heat of Western Australia’s Swan Valley, where a renaissance is in full swing. And it’s not just out west, either, with makers from South Australia also staking a claim on the variety, and exciting cooler-climate renditions starting to appear from Victoria and Tasmania. With the landscape having developed so much since our last look at chenin blanc, and autumn upon us, we thought it was an apt time to Deep Dive once again into this beguiling variety …

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