Industry doyen Chris Hancock and brother John returned to their family roots when they purchased the La Colline Vineyard in 2007 and began Hancock & Hancock. Chris graduated as dux of the oenology ...

Fred Siggins looks at the role Australian wine casks are playing in the whisky industry. Australian whisky is difficult to define. Modern Australian whisky production has only been around for a little ...

Karen and Michael Hope own Hope Estate (the former Rothbury Estate renamed after its acquisition), Tower Estate (acquired in Oct 2013), a vineyard in Donnybrook, WA and the vineyard known as Virgin ...

Major changes have taken place at Island Brook Estate since December 2011 when it was leased from the Zorzi family. It is now operated by Evan and Vanessa Haywood. It draws on 7ha of estate vineyards ...

The 7.2ha vineyard was planted between 1972 and '74. When Keith Wood who worked for Seppelt at Great Western, purchased the property in 1990, the winery and the vineyard needed rehabilitation. He ...

When it comes to travel in New Zealand, the biggest challenge is trying to decide which beautiful place to visit. Fortunately, the effortless beauty of Central Otago (and the Central Otago wineries) ...

Wine is often described as elegant, but its meaning isn’t always clear. Tony Love investigates. It takes scores of words in Roget’s Thesaurus to flesh out the concept and meaning of “elegance”. Many ...

Leon Tokar, a very successful businessman, and wife Rita dreamed of a weekender and hobby farm and it was largely by chance that in '95 they found a scruffy paddock fronting onto Maddens Lane. By the ...

Nannup Estate is owned by Mark Blizard and family. The vineyard sits high on the granite ridges of the Blackwood River escarpment. The first 6ha of vines were planted in '98, with subsequent plantings ...

The ultimate guide to virtually sort your wine collection. Start adding to your virtual cellar now. The Halliday Virtual Cellar is a cellar management tool, exclusive to members, for keeping track of ...

Central Victoria’s Nagambie Lakes is a less trodden wine region, and that’s part of what makes it a beauty of a place. With the glistening reservoir of its namesake and the Goulburn River running ...

Hercules van der Walt grew up in South Africa on a cattle farm and his wife, Emily, grew up in Melbourne. They met backpacking in Europe and the rest is history. Except the city was not his thing and ...