Australian wines have challenged the views of leading wine experts at this year’s VinItaly in Verona – Italy’s biggest annual wine fair. The screw cap in Italy is generally perceived as inferior to cork, but Australian wines, which are primarily bottled with screw cap, are beginning to change views in the country. At VinItaly last week, presenter and judge, Tyson Stelzer presented five mature flagship Australian red wines under both ...

The Wine Company (TWC) has entered into a new trading partnership with McHenry Hohnen, seeing TWC responsible for the distribution of the Margaret River wine brand across the east coast of Australia. McHenry Hohnen was established in 2004 by winemaker, David Hohnen and his brother-in-law and viticulturist, Murray McHenry. All grapes at McHenry Hohnen are sourced from family owned vineyards in the south of Margaret River, while in the cellar, ...

RRP: $42.50 Distributed by: Domaine Wine Shippers  Coonawarra based and family-owned winery, Reschke has released the latest vintage of its Bos Cabernet Sauvignon for winter. Bos, which is Latin for “bull”, is the second tier of Reschke’s benchmark Coonawarra cabernets. The 2006 of this wine will cellar well for a further ten years plus. It has undergone extended maturation in new and older French hogshead, made from fruit from the ...

Adrian Filiuta of Felix Bistro in Sydney has been announced as the winner of the 2015 Australian Ruinart Sommeliers Challenge. The challenge was open to all ‘Working Members’ of Sommeliers Australia and tested sommeliers on their ability to blind taste four sparkling wines. For the challenge, sommeliers were tested on their ability to Sommeliers also underwent a technical training session by Frédéric Panaïotis - Ruinart Chef de Caves. Filiuta was ...

Distributed by: Taylors Wines RRP: 2014 Jaraman Chardonnay $25 2013 Jaraman Shiraz & 2013 Jaraman Cabernet Sauvignon $30 Taylors Wines has released three new vintages from its award-winning Jaraman range. Like the other wines in the collection, the 2014 Taylors Jaraman Chardonnay, 2013 Taylors Jaraman Shiraz and 2013 Taylors Jaraman Cabernet Sauvignon express regional diversity, produced from fruit from the family’s vineyards in the Clare Valley, as well as selected ...

2012 Jack Mann Cabernet Sauvignon RRP: $114.99 Distributed by: Accolade Wines This newest release from Houghton, celebrates the late Jack Mann’s March birthday. Jack was the winery’s fourth generation winemaker, who produced his first vintage at the young age of 16 in 1922, as an apprentice under his father George. Jack went on to become the Senior Winemaker at Houghton between 1930-1972, when he also significantly contributed more broadly to ...

Do you know a venue with a stellar wine list? Then make sure they get involved with the 2015 Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Recognised as one of the hospitality and tourism industry’s most prestigious award programs, the awards celebrate a wine lists’ user friendliness, wine quality and how well it fits the style of the venue, among other unique criteria. Entries close 31 March 2015; for all the key information, head ...

De Bortoli Wines has been awarded Excellence in Sustainability at the New South Wales Green Globe Awards. De Bortoli received the award in the medium to large business category. The company was nominated for its ‘Re-engineering our Future for a Carbon Economy’ sustainability project. The project aims to minimise waste and energy consumption and in October of last year the company completed its installation of the largest solar panel array ...

For the third consecutive year, Chief Winemaker at Matua, Nikolai St George, has been crowned Winemaker of the Year. Nikolai was named Winemaker of the year at the New Zealand Royal Easter Show Wine Awards on Saturday March 14, following the same recognition at the NZ International Wine Show in 2014 and the NZ Royal Easter Show in 2013. At this year’s Royal Easter Show, Nikolai also received Champion Wine ...

In 2014, Australia once again proved to be an important market for Champagne.  According to the latest figures, Australia imported 6,524,220 bottles last year – an increase of 8.3 per cent, which makes Australia the sixth largest market in the world in terms of importing. The Champagne growers and houses are pleased by this return to growth. 2014 worldwide shipments recorded a rise of 1 per cent by volume compared with 2013 (305 million ...