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Halliday Wine Companion Announces 2023 Top Australian 100 Wineries

Halliday Wine Companion announced its highly anticipated Top 100 Wineries 2023 selected by chief editor, Campbell Mattinson, a milestone moment for the authority on Australian wine and an opportunity for wine lovers nationwide to recognise the best of the best. The newly acclaimed list recognises the finest Australian producers of now who put their wine…

Australian Wine Surplus

Even early removal of Chinese anti-dumping tariffs would not be enough to prevent Australia’s wine industry facing several years of oversupply, Rabobank says in its newly-released Wine Quarterly Q3 2023 report. Improving trade relations between the two countries and the recent removal of Chinese tariffs on Australian barley has led to optimism that five-year tariffs…

Halliday Wine Companion 2024 Shortlist Announced

Halliday Wine Companion has announced the shortlisted wineries, winemakers, and viticulturists for the highly anticipated 2024 Halliday Wine Companion Awards. The esteemed new-look Halliday Tasting Team is comprised of nine panelists, including new chief editor Campbell Mattinson, one of the founding editors of Halliday magazine in 2012 and a Halliday Wine Companion reviewer since 2013.…

CorkageFee Launches in Australia and New Zealand

CorkageFee, the popular restaurant guide for wine enthusiasts, has announced its official launch in Australia and New Zealand. The app now features a comprehensive directory of restaurants, wineries, wine clubs, and wine-related businesses in both countries. “Our app is a unique community for wine enthusiasts and businesses alike, and we’re excited to bring it to…

Liquorland Fundraising for Clean Up Australia

Liquorland will be donating 25 cents from every sale in-store and online over the next three days (12:00am Friday 3 March to 11:59pm Sunday 5 March 2023) to the environmental charity Clean Up Australia, as part of its Love Your Land campaign. The national fundraising initiation is in addition to the 50 cent donation the…

Marley Spoon Launches Wine Store

In an Aussie meal kit first, Marley Spoon have announced the launch of Wine Store by Marley Spoon, allowing its Australian customers to choose from a selection of wines perfectly paired to their Marley Spoon recipes – delivered directly to their door. Katy Holder, Head of Culinary Operations at Marley Spoon Australia has teamed up…

Bottle Shock

Director Randall Miller Starring Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman & Chris Pine Rated M Score 5/6 The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as “Judgment of Paris”. I sat down to watch Bottle Shock, certain that I…

Something A Little Different

Here’s to Temperance. Here’s to Temperance, I know it is an odd sentence to start with, especially considering this a wine review. But I am reliably infromed that my Grandfather on occassion would toast to temperancee. With the exception of Champagne I usually drink red wine, probably because when I first started to drink wine…

2021 Mornington Peninsula Wine Show

Weather episodes, pandemics, staff shortages and a year of lockdowns could not keep the Mornington Peninsula wine community from coming together today to celebrate the best wines and wine producers of the year, at the Mornington Peninsula Wine Show Lunch. Eight trophies were presented to seven different producers, with the chardonnay and pinot noir wines…