Wine at the lower end of the market has not increased in price much over the past 40 years,but it’s a different story for the more upmarket bottles.
Twin cabernet tastings in the heart of Margaret River wine country have shown why some of the best quality and value cabernet is found along this 110 kilometre stretch of winding road in the South West.
If you assumed wines with “reserve” on the label were of especially high quality,you’d be mistaken. In Australia,there are no laws that govern its use.
A Margaret River event that focuses on natural and organic wines from producers whose cellar doors are seldom open.
No one has changed the winemaking landscape in Australia quite like Vanya Cullen,her Wilyabrup winery sequesters more carbon than the business emits,so why aren’t more of her contemporaries following suit?
Many reds and whites do,indeed,get better with exposure to the air – but they don’t all react the same way.
The pricing of wine is a topic of endless debate. There is a multitude of factors at work. The actual cost of its production is just one,and it’s not even the most important.
It would be lovely if sellers could give growers five years’ warning,and alert them what people will be wanting more of,so growers could plant accordingly. But that’s not how it works.
Fault-finding and wine evaluation go hand in hand,but maybe it’s time to start honing in on the good things:after all,most wines have their pluses.
Bushfires,drought,export problems,a pandemic … the past year has thrown many challenges at Australian winemakers. Remarkably,though,their output quality has remained high. Here,we team up with The Real Review to bring you the country’s top producers.
Kevin Sobels was a fifth-generation descendant of an influential German immigrant wine family.