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Monday 14 July 2025 in Brandy, Coonawarra, News

Coonawarra winery releases Pot Still Brandy

Majella Wines has released the first brandy in Coonwarra for more than seventy years –…
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Monday 14 July 2025 in Governance, Grapegrowing, News, Winemaking

WET wine tax and rebate ‘should be reviewed’

The Wine Equalisation Tax (WET) and WET rebate should be reviewed to ensure they are…
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Saturday 12 July 2025 in Barossa, For Sale, News

Barossa winery Murray Street Vineyards for sale

Prominent Barossa winery Murray Street Vineyards in Greenock is for sale. Toop + Toop Rural…
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Friday 11 July 2025 in China, Exports, News

Albanese visits cellar door ahead of China visit

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited the Château Tanunda Cellar Door in Sydney today to speak…
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NZ invites the world to pour a glass of its white wine

New Zealand Winegrowers are calling all white wine lovers to pour themselves a glass of…
Exports

Asian Wine Ambassadors visit South Australia

More than 100 South Australian wine producers are set to showcase their best drops to…
China

Oz wine exports to China back to $1.03 billion

Australian wine exports to mainland China are back to $1.03 billion just a year after…

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McGuigan Wines partners with Cricket Australia

Global brand McGuigan Wines – part of Australian Vintage – has entered into a multi-year…
Marketing

Wine Australia launches new marketing campaign

The Australian wine industry is being urged to support a new campaign that aims to…
Marketing

Wine industry calls for more government funding

Australian Grape & Wine is calling on the Federal Government to allocate more funding to…

Winemaking

Governance

WET wine tax and rebate ‘should be reviewed’

The Wine Equalisation Tax (WET) and WET rebate should be reviewed to ensure they are…
Community

Winemaker’s community work ‘good for the soul’

When Stuart Bourne’s pager goes off during a shift at the Kapunda Ambulance Station in…
Barossa

Treasury unveils $15m ‘low and no’ winemaking facility

Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) today officially opened a new $15 million in-house facility dedicated to…
Scarborough The Obsessive Hunter Valley Semillon 2024 scores 94 points from Mike Bennie in WBM. “A classic Hunter offering, this is compact and racy, dart-shaped and rippling with lemon-lime, grapefruity acidity, a core of briny minerality and flecked with cucumber, quinine and snow pea characters. It feels ultra mouth-watering through its long finish, and while lightly juicy, offers up a little chalky pucker from front through mid-palate. Drinking with great vitality now, it should cellar comfortably to twenty years.” $39. @scarboroughwines @huntervalley.wine @huntervalley #Semillon #classic #compact #racy #mouthwatering #94 ❤️🙌
Peter Lehmann Wigan Eden Valley Riesling 2018 scores 94 points from Mike Bennie in WBM. “A tremendous offering here, matured to the ‘right zone’ where freshness meets benign decay and toast and honey finds symphony with tart green apple and lime. A touch of saline minerality underlying for good interest. While softening up, there’s freshness on side too. A vibrant, layered wine of great personality.” $50. @peterlehmannwines @edenvalleysa #Riesling #EdenValley #tremendous #vibrant #layered #94 ☺️👏
De Bortoli PHI Lusatia Park Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2023 scores 94 points from Tyson Stelzer in WBM. “I have long considered the cool Lusatia Park Vineyard to be the Chambolle-Musigny of the Upper Yarra, and the calm 2023 harvest beautifully supports its gentle strawberry, red cherry and raspberry mood. A portion of whole bunches accents its spicy side, with fine-grained tannins neatly resolved by nine months in new and used French oak barriques. An elegant, graceful and delicious Lusatia Park.” $40. @debortoliwines @yarravalleywine #elegant #graceful #delicious #94 ❤️👏
Cullen Wines Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2024 scores 94 points from Mike Bennie in WBM. “A beautiful luncheon Claret style red that delivers an array of intriguing scents and flavours starting with lavender, rose water, sweet tobacco and rolling into boysenberry, cassis and dark cherry. A touch of dried leaf and ferrous, sweet earthiness also appears. The wine composed, near refreshing in cool acidity and lithe tannin. Gulpable stuff.” $51. @cullenwines @margaretriver.wine #intriguing #scents #gulpable #94 🙌🙌
Schubert Estate Goose-Yard Block Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021 scores 95 points from Mike Bennie in WBM. “A mellifluous and rich red of seamless flow and evenness. Dark, brooding, blackcurrant, blackberry nip, maraschino cherry notes, clove and cinnamon, white pepper, mahogany and new leather characters abound. All bound up nicely too; a thick, supple flow that lingers with fruit sweetness and woody spice. Lush done well.” $150. @schubert_estate @mybarossa @barossawines #Shiraz #BarossaValley #mellifluous #rich #seamless #flow #95 👏🍷

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