As Australia stands on the edge on an unprecedented wine export explosion profits from domestic sales will be reinvested in vineyards and wineries to feed demand. This will spell the end of undervalue wine in the local market and marks the beginning of a massive expansion.

1990 and 1991 were both outstanding vintages in Coonawarra. This article compares the two vintages by quizzing leading Cooanwarra makers on their views.

Bruce Kemp, Southcorp boss, says Seppelt’s brightly repackaged table wines will soon all be sourced from Victoria

Padthaway has emerged as one of Australia’s most important broadacre grape sources

A detailed look at the bringing together of brands, vineyards, winemaking and managment cultures that created Southcorp wines

A snapshot of Australia’s wine industry, with a strong focus on the shift from independents to supermarkets in the retail sector

‘Wynnsday’ seemed a dumb idea at the outset, but it’s become an important day for Australia’s wine trade and consumers. It also marks the birth of brand marketing in Australian wine and heralds the rise of supermarkets and decline of independents in Australia’s fine wine market.

Leading grape growers in the Barossa and Coonawarra are branching out into winemaking. And they’re not using their worst grapes!

Peter Rymill, a descendent of Coonawarra pioneer, John Riddoch, owns one of the plum sites in northern Coonawarra. Watch this estate. And a few myths debunked.

The cool, wet 1993 vintage didn’t prove to be the disaster expected in Coonawarra and Padthaway. Whites in particular look good