New South Wales on a high: Orange & Hilltops regions and 15 wine picks
Two cool Australian regions you might not know about…
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Wynns Coonawarra Estate: producer profile
The winery that put Coonawarra on the map for wine drinkers in the 1950s...
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Peter Gago: Decanter Hall of Fame 2021
Read the full interview and see Peter Gago's five life-changing bottles...
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Australian winemaker Tony Jordan dies
Influential Australian winemaker Dr Tony Jordan OAM has died at the age of 75.
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Producer profile: Wakefield Estate
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What’s hot in Adelaide Hills: New styles and wines to try
Huon Hooke on the latest styles emerging from this highly regarded region...
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What are the best Shiraz wines from Australia?
See Decanter's top scoring Aussie Shiraz wines, as rated by our experts...
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Regional profile: Tasmania and Tasmanian Wine
This island state has less than 1% of Australia’s vineyards and just 0.1% of wine is exported, but that hasn’t muffled the huge buzz surrounding its cool-climate potential. Huon Hooke finds very good things come in small packages...
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Australia’s top 10 white wine producers
Australia's white wine scene is a hotbed of quality, and very much on the up. The country's foremost wine communicator, Huon Hooke surveys new and established wineries, large and small, to name his top estates. As published in the Decanter July 2012 issue.
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Australia's Leeuwin Estate weaves together fine wine with art
When it comes to Aussie Chardonnay, there are few bigger names than Leeuwin Estate. Huon Hooke visits the Margaret River winery behind Australia’s first vineyard concert, now celebrating 30 vintages of its pioneering Art Series
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Australian white wines
It’s not just Grange that cellars well. Leading Australian wine writer HUON HOOKE champions the ageability of his country’s whites – Chardonnay as well as Riesling, screwcap as well as cork
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John Duval, Philip Shaw and SC Pannell: Men On A Mission
Australia’s high-volume brands dominate supermarket shelves, but are criticised as soul-less, and made to a formula. HUON HOOKE meets three ex-corporate winemakers who made the break, and decided to go solo.
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Croser: Man of the year
Petaluma founder, mentor to winemaking students, and visionary winemaker, Brian Croser is one of the leaders of the Australian wine world. HUON HOOKE meets Decanter’s Man of the Year 2004
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Australian Top 10 Terroir
Like all wine countries, Australia has a relatively small number of truly great vineyard sites, as a proportion of the total planted area. These are the jewels, the rare places where the right vine has been planted in a soil and climate that suits, and the viticulture and winemaking are done in sympathetic ways, tried and tested over a long period.
