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Just an hour from Melbourne, the Yarra Valley is one of Australia's most celebrated wine regions and the benchmark for cool-climate wine in the country. It is famous above all for elegant Pinot Noi...

Merlot and Malbec are two of the most popular red wines going around, and it’s easy to see why they get compared. Both are smooth, approachable and full of dark fruit, which makes them favourites w...

Italy makes more wine, from more native grape varieties, than any other country on earth. That richness is exactly what makes Italian wine feel so hard to get a handle on, with hundreds of grapes, ...

The best wine to pair with pizza is not simply "a red." The right match depends on the sauce, the cheese and the toppings, and getting it right turns a casual dinner into something genuinely memora...

Riesling is one of the most misunderstood white wines going around. Plenty of people write it off as sweet without realising that most of the Riesling made today is bone dry, wonderfully aromatic a...

Most of the red wine you will ever drink comes from a surprisingly short list of grapes. Learn a dozen of them and you can walk into any bottle shop, read a back label, and know roughly what is wai...

Opening a good bottle should never feel like a race to the finish line. While some wines are at their best when shared generously in one sitting, others deserve to be enjoyed over a night or two… p...

Wine doesn’t become wine by magic, though at times it can feel that way. A bunch of grapes is picked, crushed, fermented, matured and eventually poured into a glass. Somewhere in the middle of all ...

Champagne is synonymous with luxury — but even within the world of fine bubbles, there exists a rarified tier where bottles command prices that defy belief. From limited-edition prestige cuvées to ...