New Zealand road trip: from vineyard to Classification
As part of our Top Wineries of New Zealand 2025 celebrations, The Real Review visited a few wineries whose wines have earned a place in The Real Review Wine Classification.
Wine Classification
Terroir down under
Which Australian winegrowing regions are the best, using The Real Review Wine Classification of Australia’s three-Merit tiered wines as our guide?
Up-tiered
This year, 20 wines have been up-tiered: six wines have made the jump from two Merits to three Merits and 14 wines have jumped from one Merit to two Merits.
Class act: New Zealand’s newly classified wines
This week sees the 2025 update to The Real Review Wine Classification of New Zealand.
Wine Classification recognises latest Australian entrants
This year, there were 63 new entrants to the Wine Classification of Australia, with 2 three Merits, 16 two Merits and 45 one Merits appearing for the first time.
How does our classification compare to the Europeans
The Real Review Wine Classification of New Zealand 2025 contains 351 classified wines, up 12 entries from the 2024 edition. In this article, Stephen Wong MW will do some quick comparisons of these other systems, just for kicks.
From boutique to benchmark
Who owns the top-performing wines on our Classification?
Introduction to The Real Review Wine Classification
This week at The Real Review we are celebrating the third revision of our Wine Classifications of Australia and New Zealand.
Tasmania dominates in sparkling update to Wine Classification of Australia
In the recent update of The Real Review Wine Classification of Australia, an array of sparkling wines qualified to receive their inaugural one and two Merit status.
The Real Review Wine Classification a helping hand
Imagine if every wine list had a little symbol beside the wines that have a Merit rating in The Real Review Wine Classification of Australia (or New Zealand)?