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Margaret River 2023 Chardonnay: Is this the greatest Margaret River Chardonnay vintage yet?
A truly spectacular vintage...
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Barossa Shiraz 2023: Vintage report and 40 top-scoring wines
A year of climatic challenges produced more streamlined styles...
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Vintage report: Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 & Chardonnay 2022
A spotlight on the region's two signature varieties across a brace of vintages...
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Barossa Shiraz 2022: Vintage report and top scoring wines
Small yields but superb quality...
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1972 vintage guide for Red Australia
1972 vintage guide for Red Australia. Dry, relatively cool season in which later harvesting Coonawarra and Eden Valley fared best
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1971 vintage guide for Red Australia
1971 vintage guide for Red Australia. A very good to excellent season for most red wine makers
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1973 vintage guide for Red Australia
1973 vintage guide for Red Australia. Not a vintage to demonstrate Australian winemaking talent
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1974 vintage guide for Red Australia
1974 vintage guide for Red Australia. A disastrous vintage with very few exceptions
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1975 vintage guide for Red Australia
1975 vintage guide for Red Australia. A disappointingly cool and meagre vintage
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1976 vintage guide for Red Australia
1976 vintage guide for Red Australia. 1977 vintage guide for Red Australia. A desolate year
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1977 vintage guide for Red Australia
1977 vintage guide for Red Australia. A desolate year
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1978 vintage guide for Red Australia
A dry growing season produced reds of richness and longevity
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1979 vintage guide for Red Australia
A generally disappointing year
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1980 vintage guide for Red Australia
A good year for wines from the Barossa and Victoria, also Cabernet and Shiraz from Western Australia
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1982 vintage guide for Red Australia
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1981 vintage guide for Red Australia
A hot, dry and forgettable vintage with many hard and tannic wines
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1984 vintage guide for Red Australia
A bewildering season which has never really lived up to its much-touted potential
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1983 vintage guide for Red Australia
A very good vintage throughout Australia; excellent Penfolds Grange
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1986 vintage guide for Red Australia
An excellent vintage, producing some classic wines with good aroma and structure
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1985 vintage guide for Red Australia
An uneven year but good in Victoria
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1988 vintage guide for Red Australia
A largely unexciting vintage
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1987 vintage guide for Red Australia
A cool summer produced wines for drinking relatively young
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1989 vintage guide for Red Australia
A very disappointing harvest. A very disappointing harvest
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1990 vintage guide for Red Australia
An exceptionally good year in South Australia; the harvest in New South Wales was spoiled by rain
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1991 vintage guide for Red Australia
An excellent vintage in all regions produced textbook wines
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1992 vintage guide for Red Australia
A mixed year but some good wines from Western Australia and Victoria
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1994 vintage guide for Red Australia
An excellent vintage in the Margaret River; South Australia also produced some classic wines
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1993 vintage guide for Red Australia
Good Cabernets were produced in Western Australia. Elsewhere the vintage was mixed, with rather light wines
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1995 vintage guide for Red Australia
A poor year in the Barossa but very good in New South Wales and Western Australia
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1996 vintage guide for Red Australia
Erratic conditions reduced yields and dramatically compromised quality
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1997 vintage guide for Red Australia
Erratic conditions reduced yields and dramatically compromised quality
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1999 vintage guide for Red Australia
A difficult vintage throughout all regions, producing wines of variable quality
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