Chris Shanahan

As a global red-wine shortage drives local prices up, rising quality of the local product compensates for the bigger price tag

Bruce Brown, Southcorp’s New South Wales’ Viticultural Manager, says his company’s New South Wales annual grape intake should jump from 12,500 tonnes to 52,000 tonnes over the next five years, underlining just how important vineyards along NSW’s Great Divide are to be to the fine wine industry next century.Eliminating grapes from other areas from those […]

Tyrrell’s has ridden wine industry cycles for a century and a half, remains in family hands and has become an important quality driver both in the Hunter and in the regions into which it has expanded in recent years

As Coonawarra edges towards a resolution to its boundary dispute

Riesling master John Vickery invites Australia’s wine writers to explore thirty years of riesling

This article, written two years before the Clare Valley Riesling Makers’ screw cap initiative, predicts the decline of cork in favour of alternatives, and reports how the battle began with synthetic plugs.

Winestate editor, Peter Simic, should review wine. Predicting massive price increases on particular wines surely falls into the realm of investment advising.

In the beginning were four noble grape varieties: cabernet sauvignon, pinot noir, chardonnay and riesling. Then Aussie shiraz came along.

A snapshot of 25 years’ winemaking in Canberra

Australian beer consumption patterns are changing and this is reflected in the diversity of styles entered in the Australian International Beer Awards