Stories & Insights from the World of Wine

Planted in 1988 for sparkling wine and bought by Shaw + Smith in 2011, Tolpuddle is now one of the defining Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vineyards in Australia.

Dan Standish, a sixth-generation Barossan, makes single-vineyard Shiraz in small quantities — Barossa wine chasing transparency and elegance rather than power.

Planted by a Swiss baron in 1863, silent for half a century, and revived by his grandson in 1969 — Yeringberg is one of the Yarra Valley's oldest names, and still a family estate in...

A single estate in the Yarra Valley, founded in 1971 on the belief that Australia could make elegant, low-alcohol wines from French varieties — and still run by the family that planted it.

The wines on our shelf that will reward patience — Yarra Valley Cabernet, Tasmanian Pinot, Barossa Shiraz, Frankland River's most sought-after reds, Riesling built for the long haul, and grower Champagne.

Seven bottles that are ready now — a weeknight white, a lunch rosé, two reds that need nothing but a glass, bubbles without ceremony, and something for after dinner.

Frankland River, Western Australia Swinney is a family farming operation in Frankland River, in the remote southern reaches of Western Australia's Great Southern, that has become the most closely watched producer of Rhône varieties in...

Ambonnay, Champagne, France Egly-Ouriet is a grower-Champagne estate based in Ambonnay, one of the seventeen Grand Cru villages on the Montagne de Reims. The domaine is now in its fourth generation under Francis Egly, who...

McLaren Vale, South Australia Bekkers is a small McLaren Vale estate founded around 2010 by Toby and Emmanuelle Bekkers, and it occupies an unusual position in the Australian fine-wine landscape: a young label, without inherited...

The case for Frankland River as one of Australia's most significant wine regions is no longer a speculative one. It is increasingly made by the wines themselves, and by the international critical attention those wines...

For anyone who has been buying wine seriously for a while, the basic mechanics of a label — vintage, variety, region, producer — are well understood. What gets less attention is the information embedded in...

Most serious wine buyers end up with a cellar by accumulation rather than design. A few allocation wines here, a couple of cases bought on a good trip to a region, a dozen bottles from...