Key Italian wine regions and styles
It’s Vino Italiano week, where we’re writing about all things Italian, so here’s a quick and dirty tour of the country’s main wine regions with a geographical view.Â
Regional Spotlights
Central Otago Spring Release 2024
Once a year, the Central Otago Winegrowers Association brings a small group of reviewers and writers to the region for two days to review current releases.
New trails and cellar doors in Central Otago
If you find yourself in Central Otago wine country and have not been in a while, you’ll notice several things have changed recently from Gibbston Valley through to the Cromwell Basin.
Introduction to Geelong
Like many wine regions, Geelong is a region of several distinct parts, each with its own soils, mesoclimate and winemakers.
Introduction to the Riverina
The Riverina is one of Australia’s biggest and most important wine regions. It’s the largest NSW wine region and the second-largest Australian wine region.
The historic Swan Valley
The Swan Valley has a great history, with the Noongar Aboriginal people of the Wadjuk tribe, the traditional landowners, having inhabited this region for over 40,000 years.
Introduction to the Swan Valley
Helped by the rise of winery tourism and its proximity to Perth, the Swan is now a serious winery crawler’s destination.
The sauvignon blanc story from Steiermark to Marlborough
It has been suggested that there are similarities between Marlborough and Austria’s southernmost wine region, the Steiermark (Styria), by virtue of both regions being recognised for sauvignon blanc, and more recently, chardonnay.
Delving into the Waitaki Valley
The youngest of New Zealand’s commercially productive wine regions, the Waitaki Valley, which has its own GI, is a fascinating region.
Introduction to the Waitaki Valley
New Zealand’s spectacularly beautiful Waitaki Valley is a long, braided river system that runs from the Southern Alps to the sea at Oamaru.