The winners of the 2018 Australian Women in Wine Awards (AWIWA) were revealed at the awards ceremony in Sydney last week.

Devastating fires have had little impact on wine quality, but critics can sniff an opportunity.

Bruce Tyrrell’s family has been planting vines in the Hunter Valley since 1879, taking advantage of the region’s humid summer climate and high cloud cover to produce the kind of gloriously rich wine that is celebrated from New York to Tokyo and today increasingly Beijing.

Wine drinkers for whom a glass of French rosé is inextricably linked with summertime fun could be left thirsty this summer as stocks of the popular tipple run low, some French media outlets have claimed. But is the rosé tap really going to run dry?

With Bordeaux an ‘investment vehicle for the 1%’, it’s time to seek out future classics from Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa.