“Far from being a monolithic wine-producing giant,” writes Jessica Dupuy, “Australia is a mosaic of microclimates and terroirs, each imparting its unique signature on the wines produced.” For Forbes, Dupuy covers the 2024 harvest season, including spotlights on Gant & Co. and Somos. Gant & Co winemaker Matt Gant tells Dupuy that “It’s been a […]

Young Gun of Wine is the leading publication in Australia for discovering new voices, cutting edge wines, and the people behind the labels. This year, Callum Powell (Agricola Vintners), Uffe Deichmann (Poppelvej), and Louis Schofield (Worlds Apart Wines) were nominated for Young Gun’s Top 50 Winemakers list.  “They’re the glitteringly bright future of Australian wine,” […]

For Wine Enthusiast, Aussie wine fanatic Christina Pickard covers the winemakers who are moving the needle on Australia’s wine image. These producers, located in cooler climate areas like Macedon Ranges, Beechworth, Grampians and Heathcote, are a “handful of small-scale, multigenerational wine families who carry with them a deep love for and connection to their land.” […]

Every year, Halliday Wine Companion rounds up the best of the best in several categories of the wine industry. This year, Joshua Cooper won Best New Winery across the entire country of Australia. “We have Josh Cooper here in the Best New Winery category, but he could easily have been placed in the open Winery […]

For Liquor.com, Kathleen Wilcox examines how producers are combating soaring temperatures (and ABVs) to create fresh flavors. She highlights the climate-appropriate plantings taking place at SC Pannell in McLaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills. To achieve a fresher profile in a warming climate, Wilcox writes that Pannell uses “less of an emphasis on oak aging, […]

Today, we have Ronnie Sanders, our CEO, and Aaron Meeker, our National Sales Manager, on to remember Josh Raynolds, a wine critic that was extremely influential in the Australian wine world. Josh passed away tragically a few days ago. He was a not only a colleague, but a mentor and a friend to Ronnie. We […]

This episode is part 2 of our interview with Peter Dredge of Dr. Edge based in Tasmania, Australia.  If you haven’t listened to part 1, go back and do so, as this is simply a continuation of our conversation. In this episode, you’ll hear the story of Peter’s wine labels, many of which are taken – with […]

If you consider the Tasmanian wine industry old enough to be going through a new wave à la Swartland or South Australia, Peter Dredge (a.k.a. Dr. Edge) would be largely responsible for shifting those tectonic plates. Peter is helping to show the world that, rather than just shipping high-acid juice to the mainland for bubbly blends, […]

This episode is part 2 with Callum Powell of Agricola Vintners based in Australia’s Barossa Valley. In this episode, we get more into the details of his two Syrah wines, called ‘Flaxman Valley’ and ‘Ebenezer’ – what’s unique about the sites where they were grown, how they were made, how they’re different, etc. We also talk a bit about the business side of things because Callum only recently quit his other winemaking gig and went full in on Agricola.