Between 1990 and 2004 the volume of Aussie wine exported to the US exploded, from around 550,000 annual cases to a whopping 20 million, led by “critter” wine brand Yellow Tail and its many cheap and ...

From the land that brought us tooth- staining shiraz, Yellow Tail, critter wines and oceans of buttery budget chardonnay, you might not expect to find rather restrained, thoughtful, bone-dry and ...

Mark Oldman loves Australia. He’d better — the New York-based wine expert is married to an Australian, and regularly visits the country for both personal and viticultural reasons. Plus, he says, ...

Australia's big, of course, and a lot of wine is made there. But because most of Australia is so bloody hot, almost all the winegrowing is concentrated in the southeast and southwest corners, closer ...

Just about all of the words in our native tongue sound deliciously mysterious and foreign when they are spoken by an inhabitant of that faraway land known as Australia, but some of their wine words ...

Australian behemoth Southcorp Wines is bottling its 2002 Rieslings with screw caps instead of corks, making the company the latest in a growing number of wineries to embrace the closure once relegated ...

Seen any Wes movies lately? If you have, and maybe even if you haven’t, you probably know that Wes movies offer quite a range of styles. No one is going to confuse the campy horror of Wes Craven (“A ...

The current-release Brokenwood Semillon 2008 is pale in color and muted in aromas but with a lively zippy acidity on the palate and a refreshingly low alcohol level of 10%. But the magic really ...