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I first met Mike and Judy Press in their kitchen overlooking their young vineyard near Lobethal, high in the Adelaide Hills in 2006. They didn’t have a cellar door back then. Still don’t. Didn’t even have a label.  I’d heard the buzz on the grapevine that an unknown cleanskin had just won three trophies and seven gold medals in the […]

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Dear friends, I have a big announcement to share with you! Today I commence a new role as Chief Editor of the Halliday Australian Wine Companion. For all of us who have grown to deeply love Australian wine and its resilient people and remarkable places, chances are James Halliday and his Australian Wine Companion have […]

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Announcing my Champagne Masterclasses 2020: The Magnum Masterclass and The Stars of 2020 Masterclass! 1. The Magnum Masterclass You’re invited to the champagne magnum masterclass of the year! Magnums are the finest expression of champagne, and brut non-vintage is the most important cuvée to declare the signature of each house style. Join us as we […]

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My Australian Sparkling Report 2020 features in-depth reviews of the top 240 Australian sparklings of the year at every price and style. 2020 will go down in history for many reasons in Australian wine, not least drought, bushfires and Covid – and the year of the finest sparkling cuvées ever unleashed in this country! The […]

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It’s our great pleasure to invite you to welcome Champagne Bollinger International Sales Director Guy de Rivoire to a tasting at your place! Bollinger stands alongside Krug as the greatest champagne house of all. I’ve singled both out as the only houses to uphold my highest rating of 10/10 in all six revisions of The […]

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It’s our great pleasure to invite you to welcome Hervé Dantan, the insightful and progressive chef de cave of Lanson to a tasting at your place! With a proactive intuition for innovation and experimentation in the vineyards and the winery, Hervé is ushering in an exciting new era in the reinvention in the 260 year […]

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Whatever your opinion of big brands, far-flung blends, controlled allocations and upwardly spiraling prices, this is one of the most outstanding and important Australian wine releases of the year – not only for South Australian shiraz and cabernet, but now for a more than respectable pinot, and one of the finest chardonnays ever conceived in […]

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It’s our great pleasure to invite you to welcome Australia’s most celebrated and most awarded sparkling winemaker to a tasting at your place. Ed Carr has spent the past 25 years creating House of Arras and transforming it into one of the finest sparkling estates in the world outside of Champagne. A legend in the […]

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By popular demand, it’s my great pleasure to announce the release of my Champagne and Sparkling Webinar Recordings! We’ve been privileged to enjoy the company of Champagne’s top chef de caves, principals and growers over recent months. The depth of insights, frank discussion and compelling stories that we have experienced deserve to be preserved and […]

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It’s our great pleasure to invite you to welcome one of Champagne’s finest growers to a tasting at your place! The next episode in our webinar series welcomes Didier Gimonnet, custodian of his family’s glorious estate of Pierre Gimonnet. One of Champagne’s most intelligent and insightful growers, Didier and his brother Olivier are privileged to […]

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