Today we can reveal the top 12 finalists for the coveted 2017 Young Gun of Wine trophies. The 12 finalists consist of six winemakers from South Australia, two from Western Australia and Tasmania respectively, and one from both Victoria and NSW/ACT. This year, amongst the Final 12 are four female winemakers, including one in a…
Tonight, 50 of Australia’s best young winemakers were announced in front of over 250 wine and food icons, and wine enthusiasts, with an event held at Circa and the Prince Bandroom in St Kilda, Melbourne. The First Drop DANGER ZONE award for the “most adventurous wine” was also presented on the evening and went to…
It hasn’t been that cool to like pinot gris. It certainly doesn’t enjoy the best rep among wine’s taste makers. And, in fact, it’s been up against it from the start in Australia. But some Mornington Peninsula producers are intent on making it a thing.
2017 is our eleventh year, and for the first time we are announcing the Top 50 list of Australia’s best young and emerging winemakers. Rory Kent, Young Gun of Wine founder, described how the Top 50 list is a response to the increasing creativity in wine: “The number of new producers is growing each year….
Alquimie Edition 7 is out now, featuring a profile on the emerging Jarad Curwood of Chapter Wine, who was amongst the Young Gun of Wine Top 12 in 2015. We were quite tickled by the punchline to the tale of how Curwood had a local woodworker fashion some 2,000 litre vats from reclaimed 100 year…
On Tuesday October 13, the Young Gun of Wine Awards came to Sydney for the first time, in the competition’s ninth year. Finalists and guests gathered at Nomad to see who would win the trophies. Best New Act was taken out by Luke Growden (Year Wines), People’s Choice went to Laura and Brendan Carter (Unico…
After a year-round search and selection process by judges – Nick Stock, Rory Kent, Philip Rich, Josh Elias, last year’s Young Gun of Wine, Fraser McKinley, with short-listing contribution from Mike Bennie – the top twelve finalists of the 2015 Young Gun of Wine Awards have been determined. Here they are: Adrian Rodda, A. Rodda Wines (Beechworth, Victoria)…
“Some people aren’t happy with wine unless it stains their teeth,” said a bemused sommelier to me recently. Barossa is the capital of big reds, so it’s interesting to get a pulse on what is happening there. Since the peak of the big red boom a decade ago, things have been dialled down from 11…
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