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October 5, 2023

Wine Enthusiast’s Top 100 Best Buys

Scoring 92 points, and listed at $20 suggested retail price, Kilikanoon’s Mort’s Block Riesling landed in Wine Enthusiast’s Top 100 list of Best Buys for 2023 at #49.

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February 8, 2019

The Diversity of Australia

Australian Wine by Region and Style Wine EnthusiastFebruary 2019by Christina Pickard Few corners of the wine world defy its stereotype more than Australia. Sure, there are kangaroos and crocodiles, dusty…

April 4, 2017

To Cork or Not to Cork

Corked Wine Reality Check Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate April 4, 2017 By Lisa Perrotti-Brown I’ve had it way too good for the last few years when it comes to…

August 4, 2016

A Word on Clare Valley Riesling from Chuck Hayward

Chuck Hayward on Clare Valley Riesling Wine & Spirits Magazine Fall 2016 interviewed by Luke Sykora In the early 1990s, Chuck Hayward was buying wine for the Jug Shop, a…

December 18, 2015

Australia the Big Winner in Decanter’s Star Buys of 2015

50 Star Buys of 2015 Decanter January 2016 From the thousands of wines tasted and rated by Decanter’s expert judges and writers over the past 12 months, we have picked…

July 31, 2015

Lisa Perotti-Brown in the Clare Valley

South Australia, Clare Valley: Esoteric Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate July 31, 2015 by Lisa Perrotti-Brown Clare Valley is one of Australia’s best kept wine secrets. OK, so it’s not such…

March 11, 2015

Arizona Daily Sun Highlights Stellar Aussie Shiraz

Pine Wine: Shiraz from lesser-known Aussie wineries Arizona Daily Sun March 11, 2015 by John Vankat Australia is among the world’s top ten wine-producing countries and is best known for…

January 14, 2015

Wine Spectator Insider January 2015

Wine Spectator Calls Out Kilikanoon With 93 Points Wine Spectator Insider January 2015 93 pts    Kilikanoon Shiraz Clare Valley Covenant 2012 Supple, polished, expressive and ripe, layering the blackberry, dark…

July 2, 2014

The Glories of Riesling Down Under

The Glories of Riesling (Part Three) – The New World Reflections on Wine July 2, 2014 Tom Hyland In my two previous posts on Riesling, I wrote about the two…

March 4, 2014

John Duval & d’Arenberg Score Big in The Wine Advocate

The latest issue of The Wine Advocate features reviews of d’Arenberg and John Duval Wines in its South Australia and McLaren Vale reports The Wine Advocate Issue #211 by Lisa…

October 22, 2013

Terroirist Reviews d’Arenberg

Wine Reviews: McLaren Vale & Clare Valley October 19, 2013 by Isaac Baker Australia is an early stop on the wine lover’s journey, a testing ground for the development of…

September 25, 2013

Hawk Wakawaka Wine Reviews on Australian Riesling

Last week three of us got together and tasted through 24 wines focused on the theme of dry Australian Riesling. The goal of the tasting was to gather wines from…

August 20, 2013

Australian Wine is Greater Than the US Wine Press Admits

W. Blake Gray The Gray Report Aug 19, 2013 First, let me give you a number: Australia is the second-largest exporter of wine to the US, behind only Italy. We…